Hi, I’m Max Cozzi—the creator of Redwood Kitchen.
I’m a food photographer by trade, and this blog began as a place to document my own cooking after years of shooting everyone else’s. What started as a well-intentioned attempt at a simple curry (followed by many questionable dinners) slowly snowballed into this growing collection of recipes. Whether that first curry was good or not is lost to time—but here we are.
The recipes you’ll find here don’t follow a specific diet or culinary rulebook. They’re simply the foods I love to cook and eat. I follow a mostly vegetarian lifestyle, with plenty of room for seafood, and zero interest in restriction for restriction’s sake.
I’m also an avid gardener, which means I try to eat as seasonally as possible. Many of the recipes here are built around produce grown in my own garden or sourced locally, depending on what’s thriving at the moment.
I write about food the same way I cook it—honestly. Every recipe on this site is created, tested, and photographed by me, with a focus on fresh ingredients and traditional preparations that don’t need much fussing.
And yes—the Redwood Kitchen really does sit in the shadow of a towering redwood tree in my backyard. I pass it daily, usually with an overfilled grocery bag in hand.
I work as a photographer full-time alongside this project. You can see more of my photography here.