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I’m Lingbo. I’m on a mission to eat everything.

In my travels, I’ve dined on smoked puffin, testicles, bull penis, calves’ brains, rabbit’s head, rare mink whale steak, and fermented shark. I’ve found culinary joy both in $1 Burger King Junior Whoppers and Wagyu beef nigiri at Boston’s O Ya. Ask me sometime how I ended up in Hong Kong when I was 19 . Or, you know, how I’m still alive.

At school, I’m President of the Harvard Culinary Society, where we organize wine tastings, cooking lessons, cook offs, and a YouTube cooking show. I launched Taste, a weekly newsletter and website of all things edible.  I pen two food columns — “Lingbo Eats” and “Whine and Dine” — for The Harvard Crimson. Before that, I was a “real reporter” who covered Cambridge retail and admissions news. Summer 2010 I interned at food megablog Serious Eats. In the past, I’ve worked at or contributed food content to Boston Grubstreet, Let’s Go: Boston, STUFF magazine, City Weekend Shanghai, GoodEater,  The Examiner, The North County News and 3 Buck Bites. I was also an editor for Let’s Go: Europe 2009 and Let’s Go: Western Europe 2009. I did web and social media consulting for Crabtree’s Kittle House, a high-end American restaurant in Chappaqua, NY. (And hostessed. I was not very good.)

I’ve been interviewed on video by the lovely and talented Lynne Guey for CampusTweet.TV, served as a judge for Top Chef: Harvard and the Boston Luxury Chocolate Salon. I’m happy to talk to journalists about food, Harvard, and digital media.

I also aspired to learn the secret of how to become a beauty queen. (My reasons for entering were deep, even if physical beauty is not.) I did not win the coveted title of Miss New York USA 2010, but I did learn that pageants are a pyramid scheme that exploit the dreams of young women. Or an empowering experience of being beautiful. Like so many things in life, the answer is “both.”

I love getting mail: lingbolingbo [at] gmail.com.

Frequently Asked Questions

1) Can you give me a restaurant recommendation?

Search through my blog archives (entries are tagged by cuisine, location, and genre) or shoot me an email!

2) How did you make this website?

I use WordPress for blogging and I recommend Dreamhost for a website host – you can use my coupon “CARPEDOMAINNAME” to get a free domain name registration!

3) I’m a fellow student/Bostonian/food writer/book agent/producer. We should get dinner/hang out/collaborate/talk about a book deal/tv show!

Okay! I like making new friends and contacts. As long as you’re not creepy.

If you want to get involved with the Harvard Culinary Society, definitely shoot me an email.

4) What’s your favorite restaurant?

This is a tricky question. I guess I don’t play favorites. But for self-indulgent treats, I do like Veggie Planet an awful lot. I plug it like, every two seconds since it’s budget-friendly.

5) How are you not obese?

Genes, youth, and my Foie Gras Diet. But honestly, if I eat cupcakes all day and don’t exercise, I gain weight too. My pictures from the beauty pageant are me at my skinniest, and that’s a result of old-fashioned eating less and moving more. No secret there.

6) I like your blog!

Thanks! Yay! That makes me happy. If you want to make me happier, tell your friends about it!

7) I hate your blog. All you talk about is food. You are so shallow.

Ok! Trying reading something else… maybe something that’s not a food blog.