A living archive of a culinary career

This site is the curriculum vitae of Luke Wu, presented as an archive rather than a document. Instead of a flat résumé, it gathers the full record of a cooking life into one place: the kitchens and farms where the work happened, the roles held in each, the certificates and employment records that verify them, the press and publications that covered the work, and the photographs taken along the way — mentors, brigades, plates, the pass, the bench, and the growing rooms.

It exists for the people who need to evaluate that record seriously. Executive chefs and chef-owners considering a hire, restaurant groups and hotel operators building a brigade, farm and controlled-environment agriculture teams looking for culinary partnership, recruiters verifying a lineage, and journalists or collaborators who want the primary sources rather than a summary. Every claim on the site is anchored to something you can open and read: a letter, a certificate, a record, an article. Private cover letters are written for named recipients and shared as individual, access-controlled links, so each reader sees a letter addressed to them rather than a generic pitch.

The archive is built and maintained by Luke Wu, who writes and curates every entry himself, alongside the related Mitochondrial Cuisine, Cinder, and Crucian Farms projects. The site is updated continuously as new work, documents, and photographs enter the record — it is meant to be read as a current account, not a snapshot.