About

hi! I’m Katie. I like cooking, traveling, writing, and taking pictures.

I named my blog Egg Butter after one of my earliest memories combining food and travel. I was an American kid visiting my distant relatives’ summer cottage in the Finnish archipelago when a long lost uncle gave us munavoi—a mixture of butter and chopped hard boiled eggs—to spread on our bread. I still remember my first bite more than two decades later: it was insanely delicious, decadent, and simple. “how could butter and eggs mixed together taste this good,” I wondered. it blew my 10 year-old mind.

I live with my partner, our dog, and our new baby son between Hamtramck, Michigan and New Haven, Connecticut. Hamtramck is a very small and very diverse place that’s surrounded by the city of Detroit on all sides. there, we reside in a historic brewery building that was converted into artist studios in the late 1970s. currently, we are in New Haven while my partner finishes his masters’ degree in painting at the Yale School of Art.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in film & video studies, but I’ve always been obsessed with all things food: making it, eating it, sharing it with friends and family. I’ve spent my working life in both industries, doing everything from directing music videos to cooking on the line. I still work as a video editor and teach filmmaking at an art school in Detroit.

I started this blog to document my culinary experiments and food experiences. previously, I focused on recipes that are free of gluten, dairy, and refined sugar because I have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). since becoming pregnant, having a baby, and going through postpartum, that PCOS-diet focus has been kind of out the window. and besides, I love bread and butter and I don’t love restrictive diets, so nothing has ever been off limits for me, culinarily.

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thanks for stopping by :)

photo taken at White Sands National Park by Justine Tobiasz