Hello! Thanks for visiting my page. A little about me:

My name is Mecca Bos and I am a Twin Cities based food writer and professional chef.

For six years, I conceived and wrote the food section of the long, lost, but beloved mostly print-only Metro Magazine in what was still the golden age of magazines (no blogging!); I spent nearly three years as food blogger and dining critic for the now defunct City Pages, and my list of bylines and contributions locally and nationally is long: Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, Minnesota Monthly, GoMN, MEAL, MPR, Twin Cities Live, Travel and Leisure, VICE, TASTE, PASTE, NYT, others.

I'm a Black woman cooking professionally for twenty years-- for this alone I deserve a medal of endurance, believe me. I've worked in many of Minneapolis' most lauded restaurants and other kitchens, most recently as chef of Eat for Equity, but also Grand Cafe, Lucia's, The Birchwood, and many more that have come and gone; as well as in many other culinary capacities: behind cheese counters, on farms, in refrigerated delivery trucks, under tents, on canoes, in firetrucks, in broom closets--all while slinging food.

Since the pandemic started, I have been self-publishing on Patreon, building a tailored audience so I can write and cook in a more intimate (and safe) way than restaurants and the rapidly shifting publishing world currently allows for.

I don’t really Tweet, and I’m pretty sure I’m doing Instagram wrong. I’d rather read books and journal like it’s 1999.

I’d love to be considered for freelance writing (and maybe even cooking!) opportunities.