Saeyoung and Saehee (left to right)
Saehee is in her last year of a Masters in Fine Arts program for Creative Writing at Calarts. Apart from mixing, whisking, sifting, and macerating fruit, she writes short fiction about diassociated anatomy and disembodied bodies. She writes, teaches, eats, bakes, and resides in Los Angeles.
Saeyoung attends Boston University and studies Journalism and Business. Although less artistic than her better half, she works as a producer and anchor for the award winning BUTV10 debate show, “On That Point.” She is the Social Chair for her sorority. She anchors, eats, socializes, and occasionally bakes in Boston.
A Beginning
Saeyoung and I were on a train, in India no less. We had just boarded and only just settled in, our backpacks still on our knees. I pulled out my iPod and Joanna Newsom’s The Sprout and The Bean (here, we must give credit) had just come on. I pulled out the left earphone and put it in Saeyoung’s ear and we sat there, on a train, in India, listening to the same song, sharing the same earphones. It was one of those incredible moments of nothingness. Dear friends, you know about these moments, we’ve had many a conversation about these inexplicably uneventful shiny moments. And I’m sure it had something to do with being on train, a vehicle that has always seemed romantic to me. And I’m sure it had something to do with being India and having been in Korea only a few days before and in Tokyo a few days before that and being struck by the immensity of our smallness only made smaller by traveling. And I’m sure it had something to do with Saeyoung and I sharing earphones even though we each had our own and how pleasing it was to glean a satisfaction from sharing, as we are apt to do (here try this, eat this, take a bite of this, wear this, feel this).
It must have occurred to us at the same time, I am sure of it. This is how I am recalling it. The duo of a sprout and a bean described us! Saeyoung was clearly the sprout—springy, determined in an upwards direction. I was clearly the bean—a heavy clumsy thing.
Since then we’ve been crafting the idea of a food business appropriately called The Sprout & The Bean, though the form was always changing. Saeyoung and I are nothing if not food fixated and it has always been our hope to start a food based business together.
But now, this is a start, and we’re starting with catering because I like to bake/cook and I’d like to do these things for you!
Please browse the website for items that are of interest to you and feel free to commission anything that you can dream up. Our specialties include tea infused baked goods, rustic pastries, and fruit studded desserts.
Please contact Saeyoung Cho for orders and pricing at 949. 683.9304
or
Me (saehee) for specific questions regarding food at 949.677.6987
or
you can reach us at sprout.bean.food@gmail.com
~saehee
