Hello, nice to meet you!

My name is Irina Mi(khailava) and I am delighted to welcome you to my world.

I am a person of many interests but the biggest passions of my life are food and learning.

Ever since I stumbled during my university years onto theories of learning (of which there are many), I have become fascinated with how human learning drives individual and collective success. Having worked predominantly with my head in the search of the answers, I have come to miss other forms of interaction like sensory or emotional. So as the next step, I have found my cheer in food and cooking.

I am forever fascinated with ingredients, techniques and culinary traditions that we have amassed from the moment an early man discovered fire. I truly believe that cooking food has helped the humankind to become what we are today, and I enjoy pondering over such questions as the importance and symbolism of food for the humanity. 

What I love most about food is creation and creativity that happens on the daily basis. Though it follows a recipe, cooking food is a performance, and it is different from kitchen to kitchen and day to day. I love this fleeting nature of food. It means that every day we don’t just get to do it again, but get to do anew.

Yours truly, Irina Mi