jason kotoch is primarily an artist and a home cook. He started cooking because his dad told him that if he wanted to do art, he should pursue a culinary art in order to make some money. jason’s dad was a Lebanese immigrant and a machinist at a plastic bucket factory. jason’s mom encouraged him to do whatever made him happy, but she didn’t really mean it. jason’s mom comes from West Virginia in the heart of Appalachia. She worked in the plastic factory that manufactured the original pink flamingo lawn ornament. She also told jason his grandma Loretta's drop biscuit recipe. He wrote it down and slipped it in-between the pages of a particular Lebanese cookbook that he cooks from because it closely mimics the Lebanese food he remembers his paternal grandmother making. jason concerns himself with issues of labor, language, relationships and the recipes the elder women in his family have shared with him over the years. He’s a second generation Lebanese American who can't speak Arabic and he thinks about that a lot.