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, and live events.

An immigration lawyer by trade, Sharon is a San Francisco Bay Area-native currently based in Los Angeles. She has 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’.