2025 Guest Gulletiers
Each week we’re joined by a different Guest Gulletier [guhl-let-e-yey] who shares a food story with is. In alphabetical order:
Alyssa Savino is a writer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She posts on her Substack, Soft Earlobe, and is a co-host of the podcast No Returns, about all things found in Little Free Libraries.
Read her story The Mustard Girl
David Odyssey is a writer and astrologer. He shares essays on his personal Substack and flies off the handle on his podcast, The David Odyssey Show. His first book, When Saturn Returns, comes out in April.
Read his story Gruel the World
Dylan Marron is the author of Conversations with People Who Hate Me. His weekly Substack is Reconsider This. He became a vegetarian on a whim 12 years ago and never looked back.
Read his story A Slice of the Suburbs
Holly Richards is the author of several unpublished manuscripts, essays and screenplays. She used to write speeches, talking points, and presentations for the geopoliticians. Now she spends time growing and making her own food.
Read her 2024 story Smallest State, Best Plates
Jess Daly is an art director & creative multi-hyphenate. Her Roman Empire is imagining what time travelers would think of the NYC subway.
Read her story The Divine Marrow of St. John
Read her 2024 story Blood, Oats & Irish Rome
Julia Joern is a long-time lover of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. Dog mom to Benji, thrift store enthusiast, and David Bowie devotee, she's also the owner of Julia's Local, a sweet little restaurant in Round Top, New York.
Melissa McDormand is a psychotherapist, amateur cook, and restaurant lover in Northeastern Massachusetts. Her podcasting days are on indefinite hiatus, but she still loves sharing her opinions.
Sam Richards / Richarts is a UK-based illustrator. With both a bachelor's and master's degree in illustration, he now works freelance. His work is playful, using expressive characters whilst pushing the boundaries of perspective. Working primarily in editorial and children's illustration, he draws inspiration from his surroundings in the countryside, which is also where he loves to go running.
Read his story Life’s a Marathon
Tom Vellner is a writer, editor, and Cheez-It connoisseur in the Hudson Valley. He works as an editorial manager for the ACLU and has written for BuzzFeed, VICE, Thrillist, and more.
Tura Oliveira is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Brooklyn. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently an MFA candidate at Yale. She has received awards, residencies, and fellowships from organizations including Yaddo, BRIC, AIR Gallery, Ars Nova, and the Tides Institute. She has had solo exhibitions at spaces including Geary Contemporary, BRIC, Wave Hill, The Java Project, and Disclaimer Gallery. She was a 2019 Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill, and a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. In 2023, she will be the Abbey Awards Fellow at the British School at Rome.
Her work uses textiles, video, installation, and performance to explore labor, science fiction, and queer futurity. Her performances use original music, handmade sets and costumes, drag, and re-performance, with text drawn from popular culture, and idiosyncratic research.
Read her story The Devil Wears Danskos