Thursday, April 2, 2026

Creating A Cookbook Changes the Way You Cook

round white ceramic plate filled with waffle

MOFAD is thrilled to host Chef Sheldon Simeon and writer and editor Elyse Inamine for an insightful conversation that will explore how writing a cookbook can change a chef’s culinary point of view. Chef Simeon’s new cookbook, Ohana Style: Food from Hawai’i, for Your Family, is all about cooking for your oʻhana—your family, friends, and community. But the book also came about through his oʻhana. Chef Simeon and Inamine will discuss this along with how breaking free from tradition and nostalgia led Simeon to create a book that blends community, locality, and identity.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water St 2nd Flr Brooklyn, NY 11201

Thursday, April 2, 2026

7 - 9 PM (doors open at 6)

Purchase Tickets

Tickets include access to Street Food City from 6 to 7 PM, bites from Chef Sheldon Simeon, and refreshments.

Courtesy of our partner bookseller Kitchen Arts & Letters, copies of Ohana Style: Food from Hawai’i, for Your Family, can be pre-purchased in a ticket bundle or during the program.

Museum of Food and Drink

55 Water St 2nd Flr Brooklyn, NY 11201

Thursday, April 2, 2026

7 - 9 PM (doors open at 6)

Purchase Tickets

Tickets include access to Street Food City from 6 to 7 PM, bites from Chef Sheldon Simeon, and refreshments.

Courtesy of our partner bookseller Kitchen Arts & Letters, copies of Ohana Style: Food from Hawai’i, for Your Family, can be pre-purchased in a ticket bundle or during the program.

Speakers

Sheldon Simeon

is the chef and owner of Lineage, a restaurant that explores the ancestral roots of Hawaiian cuisine, as well as Tin Roof, where he serves contemporary Hawaiian dishes in a casual setting, both in Maui. In 2019, Lineage was named one of Bon Appétit’s Top 50 Nominees for America’s Best New Restaurants. Sheldon was a finalist on Season 10 of Top Chef: Seattle, becoming a finalist en route, and later competed on Season 14 of Top Chef: Charleston. He was voted Fan Favorite on both seasons.

photo credit: Kevin Miyazaki

Sheldon Simeon

photo credit: Kevin Miyazaki

Elyse Inamine

is a writer and editor based in New York City, with bylines in the New York Times, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, TASTE, and more. Prior to freelancing, she was the restaurant editor at BA, where she created the restaurant industry awards platform Heads of the Table and was nominated for a James Beard media award. Now, she’s working on cookbooks, writing stories about topics she loves (cute food, the food of Hawaiʻi), and much more.

photo credit: Heami Lee