ABOUT

RECORDS IN THE DEN is a storytelling and people-gathering platform centered around food, founded by writer and cook, Sharon Brenner.

Records in the Den is a space for food, creativity, adventure, and cooking. Food-related experiences are sensory. They can be soothing, transformative, fun, triumphant, inspiring, therapeutic, a reminder of a person or place, or the anchor or creator of a memory, and much more. Food also gathers us, whether at an elaborate dinner party or over a simple PB&J. It can serve as an artistic medium for creative expression, and a tool with which to advocate for change.

Through Records in the Den, Sharon has collaborated with a range of partners from art organizations and creative events, to retailers and brands. Records in the Den currently encompasses Sharon’s food writing, photography, an Athenian-inspired Greek dinner series, cooking classes, a cookie pop-up, and more.

An immigration lawyer by trade, Sharon is a San Francisco Bay Area-native currently based in Los Angeles. She also lived in Athens, New York, Paris, Istanbul, and Cape Town.

PS What does 'Records in the Den' mean anyway?

I was listening to a podcast one day and the interviewee referred to ‘…just sitting and listening to records in the den…’. The way I feel when I listen to music or watch a film is akin to the relaxing or expressive feelings I have when cooking. When I started recording my recipes, I would title them like a song or after lyrics I admired. 

I see cooking and sharing food as experiences and opportunities, with the most beautiful meals, records, films, concerts, and cooking triumphs all recalling a certain sense of kinship with each other. Enter, ‘Records in the Den’.