"A cramped, unattractive, and largely nonfunctional space that was vetoed as a shoot location for her debut cookbook; because it lacked a proper setup she had to roll a cart, portable burner, tools, and ingredients to a window to create a makeshift filming and cooking area. That improvisational workflow felt like 'fake cooking' to her and made recipe writing clunkier and more complicated, prompting a different, more hack-oriented approach to developing recipes." - Bettina Makalintal