Headless Chicken is a project and dining experience by Chef Emma Lesher-Liao aiming to bring people together over a carefully prepared, nutrient-dense meal that takes the time to let each component sing. Out of an amalgamation of influences– their experience being half Taiwanese and American, growing up cooking with grandparents raised in Japan occupied Taiwan, working with food at many stages of its life and circulation as a farmer and restaurant cook– Emma has a deep, meditative, and researched appreciation for ingredients and how they act in the body. Their ultimate goal is to make eating feel alive, energizing, and grounding. Expect vegetables sourced from Star Route Farm and beyond; Makgeolli lees pickles, soy milk porridge with chestnuts, chrysanthemum greens and turnip; gently poached drunken chicken; a dried plum cherry tomato slush, and more.

Why Headless Chicken, besides the tongue in cheek reference to the phrase? Emma’s family lore has it that a Liao ancestor had a mishap eating the head of a chicken, such that it is now considered unlucky for descendants to eat chicken head.

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*Flier by Pascal Peppe