Rogue Cuisine Coming to Sonoma County 2021
Sharing our family food with our community.
Rogue Cuisine Coming to Sonoma County 2021
Sharing our family food with our community.
What we offer
Fresh Meal Kits
Fresh Meal Kits
Fresh Meal Kits
Carefully curated meal kits for you to cook at home. We select local fresh ingredients complete with step by step recipes with photos and FAQ. All you have to add is the love
Pantry items
Fresh Meal Kits
Fresh Meal Kits
We have created all inclusive pantry items complete with the spices and cooking instructions. Great to pull out on a rainy day.
Sauces condiments and pickles
South East Asian Cuisine Pop-up
South East Asian Cuisine Pop-up
Our seasonal sauces, condiments and pickles are the perfect accompaniment to our meal kits and pantry items. We also offer the sauces included in our meal kits for when you are ready to mix it up with your own ingredients.
South East Asian Cuisine Pop-up
South East Asian Cuisine Pop-up
South East Asian Cuisine Pop-up
We host Pop-up events serving our fully cooked to order dishes. we invite you to come experience our food first hand. Our events serve modern Southeast Asian cuisine specializing in drunken noodles and Lao food.
We would love to meet you in person!
Founders
Renee
Renee
Renee
I am a Sonoma county native born at community hospital for their unique midwife program and natural childbirth methods in Santa Rosa. Growing up in Sonoma county as a black child in a black family was certainly a unique experience here. Although my history is rich and storied, our origins are not concrete. We were told we are from African, Native American and European ancestry. The details are unknown, who and where we came from is up for debate. What I do know is my family had deep roots in the south. My grandparents are from Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi and Oklahoma. My grandfather fled Arkansas at 16 to escape being lynched by the Ku klux Klan. My maternal great grandmother was raised on a reservation in Oklahoma and hopped boxcars to get to California for a better life. She owned a ranch in dry creek where she raised animals, farmed and preserved food for the family. She later moved to Sebastopol and cultivated an apple orchard near Twin Hills school, where I grew up.
My parents were born in San Francisco attending early elementary school there before moving to Sebastopol, graduating from Analy high, Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University. I followed in their footsteps.
Eating Gravenstein apples and blackberries on our farm was one of my favorites, second only to making and consuming the delicious desserts from these luscious summer fruits. My mother, brother and I spent what felt like endless days together cultivating our gardens, discovering new foods and exploring nature. We cooked meals together and felt joyful anticipation to share our day's adventure with our father over the dinner table. I grew up learning how food and family contribute to a rich culture of connections in community life.
From farm to table my roots in Sonoma County are deep and my passion for a healthy lifestyle is central to my beliefs.
Sally
Renee
Renee
In 1986, my parents traveled from Laos to the Philippines to a refugee camp as they were offered sponsorship to migrate to the United States, the land of opportunities. With having very little education and an unknown employment background, my parents had to find a way to survive financially to take care of their four young children. Agriculture, what my parents knew best. Landing in Fresno County, they decided to work with family farming, working early when the sun was barely coming up til dawn. Although they spent most of their day farming to support us, they always came home with fresh harvested produce to prepare our dinner. What I remember the most as a child was watching both my parents after a long hard day at the farm, cooking together with lots of laughter and love as we all helped prep dinner somehow. From washing the thai basil to handing the fish sauce and setting the “pa khao”, we used this time to come together as a family while we enjoyed the food we made together.
Being born and raised in Fresno California, with a large Laotian community, I was surrounded with the language, culture, tradition and especially the food. Family gatherings consisted of aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas along with older cousins in the kitchen or outside prepping and cooking. In 2004, I decided to move out of Fresno County to Sonoma County to attend college at SSU. Being away from home, missing my family was taking a toll and the only way I felt like I was back at home was the comfort of homemade Lao food. Although I cooked simple dishes as a teen such as fried rice, chow fun, wrapping fresh spring rolls and putting together my own bowl of pho, I had very little knowledge of preparing Lao food. Phone calls were a constant each day as I called both my mom and my aunt for recipes for dishes I was craving for. These recipes didn’t consist of measurements but more of tasting your food as you’re cooking. Add more of “this” or “that” if needed. This showed me how to tend to my dishes with love and inspired me to continue cooking to share with peers here in Sonoma County. My parents expressed the importance of being a woman of Laotian background and carrying the traditions, culture and language down to my children. Growing up eating a “family style” meal, I now carry that tradition with both my family and friends.