Made by a mom.

Hi, my name is Eda. I’m a mom, a television culinary producer, and the daughter of a Thai restaurant family. Food has never been just a job for me. It’s where I come from.

I grew up in my family’s Thai restaurant. It was one of the first Thai restaurants in Chicago, and I was the lone server. By the end of the year, our little restaurant was named one of the Top Ten restaurants in Chicago.

From the set to the stove

For years I worked as a culinary producer in television, building and styling food for the camera, developing recipes, and making sure everything that reached the plate looked as good as it tasted. I loved it. All the while, I was raising my son as a single mother in Santa Monica — from preschool through high school (he’s in New York finishing college now). I made a promise that we would not eat fast food, and going out to restaurants wasn’t feasible too often.

A business, and a documentary

I started my own food business out of a commercial kitchen, cooking and delivering meals to Good Eggs and Bob’s Market in Santa Monica. Then COVID changed everything — between ghost kitchens and delivery apps, the business was never quite the same.

In 2019, I learned about a group of home cooks in Riverside County who were licensed to cook and sell from their own home kitchens. I directed a documentary short about it that aired on PBS KVCR and went on to win Best Documentary Short at the Sonoma International Film Festival and the California International Short Film Festival.

Making it, I learned about local economies, community, and culture — and that’s what Edamame Eats 2.0 is about: sharing the foods I grew up eating, the food I fed my family, on a local level.

Who this is for

Edamame Eats is for anyone who wants real, comforting homemade meals with intentionally sourced ingredients. The salads don’t need to be reheated, and the dinners are meant to be warmed up as though they came straight out of your oven or stovetop (because they do!).

And it’s for women 40+ like me. Somewhere in our forties, our bodies start asking for a little more care — more calcium and omega-3s, steadier energy, gentler ingredients. So many of our favorites are quietly built to help with exactly that, from hormone-supportive miso to omega-rich salmon and bone-strengthening greens. You’ll see them marked 🔥 Hot Flash Cook on the menu.

Edamame Eats is my philosophy on food — comfort food that’s satisfying and happens to be good for you.

A living menu

Because I cook with what’s fresh, the menu changes. I add and rotate dishes based on what’s in season and locally available — and, honestly, on what you love most. So if a favorite isn’t here one week, it’s likely coming back around soon, alongside something new worth trying.