Jeeca Uy
Jeeca Uy is the Filipino-Chinese recipe developer and cookbook author behind The Foodie Takes Flight, sharing approachable vegan dishes inspired by Asian food and her travels.
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Page Street Publishing
Overview
- Known online as
- The Foodie Takes Flight
- Background
- Grew up in the Philippines with a Chinese background
- Started
- April 2015 on Instagram
- Debut cookbook
- Vegan Asian (2021)
Mini bio
How it started.
Jeeca began sharing home-cooked vegan food on Instagram after high school in April 2015. The account stayed a passion project through university. She learned from family, cooking shows, and her own kitchen experiments.
From posts to a cookbook.
Her East and Southeast Asian recipes grew into The Foodie Takes Flight. In 2021 she released Vegan Asian, adapting childhood favorites and dishes from her travels. Tatler recognized her on its 2023 Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow list.
Learning in New York.
Her About page says she took the Institute of Culinary Education’s Plant-Based Culinary Arts Program in summer 2024, then put those skills to work during an internship at abcV.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2021Vegan Asian: A CookbookAuthor
- 2019Vegan KitcheneBook author
Awards
Quotes
I love cooking for my friends, family, and loved ones.Jeeca Uy, The Foodie Takes Flight About page
Trivia
- Jeeca is short for Jessica.
- She makes ceramics, including many of the plates in her food photographs.
- She enjoys indoor climbing.
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