Nikkita grew up in the U.K., where song, art, and the soft threads of diaspora shaped her early years.
A singer-songwriter and interdisciplinary artist, she studied textiles, fine art, politics, and international relations, always searching for the ways culture sustains itself across borders and eras.
Her love of food began long before her academic work. It was gifted to her by both of her grandmothers, whose kitchens were sanctuaries of scent and story.
From them she learned that food is not merely cooked, it is inherited. They showed her how a recipe can hold a family together, how taste becomes a form of memory, and how culture survives through the hands that keep feeding it.
Nikkita’s passion extends beyond her Caribbean and Ashkenazic roots. She is drawn to the full tapestry of Jewish culinary life, its wanderings, its borrowings, its miraculous endurance. In every dish she seeks the hidden fibers that connect Jewish communities across continents and centuries, revealing how the Diaspora wove one people out of many places.
