Soleil Ho, Part 2 (S8E15)

Soleil Ho, Part 2 (S8E15)

From Storied: San Francisco by Storied: San Francisco

April 2, 2026 · 27 min · Season 8 · Episode 15

About this episode

Soleil Ho discusses their journey through food writing and restaurant work across various cities.

For Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Soleil was working in restaurants in Minneapolis, both front-of-house and back, and also starting writing about food around this time. There was a new food publication in Minneapolis at the time called Heavy Table, and Soleil offered to intern for them. At first, it was a lot of looking around for events for the publication to cover. Eventually, there were opportunities to do some writing, and Soleil pounced. That led to other chances to write, and the proverbial ball was rolling. They were also on food stamps at the time, which doesn't surprise me too much. Rewinding a bit, Soleil talks about the food blog they had around 2007. It was mostly for recipes, but it was theirs and theirs alone. They looked up to the big food bloggers of the time, people who are still around and still writing about food. From Minneapolis, Soleil moved to Portland. After they, tried New Orleans with the idea of going to grad school there, but fell back to restaurant work. And then they went to Puerto Vallarta to help their mom open a restaurant there. After Soleil's sister went off to college, their mom had moved to Mexico City. She worked for a…

People in this episode

Guest: Soleil Ho

Topics covered

  • food writing
  • restaurant work
  • personal journey
  • food blogs
  • cultural experiences

Keywords

  • Soleil Ho
  • food writing
  • restaurants
  • Minneapolis
  • Puerto Vallarta
  • Heavy Table
  • food blogs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heavy Table

Places: Minneapolis, Portland, New Orleans, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico City

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