Phoebe Tran is a Vietnamese-American chef and artist whose evolving food practice, Bé Bếp, traces the pathways between ancestral memory, land, and lineage. Rooted in Vietnamese folk medicine, intergenerational storytelling, and her background in farming, her work uses food as both material and metaphor—an entry point into ritual, sensory installation, and collective world-building.

Drawing from traditional cooking methods and family recipes, Tran creates dishes that aim to capture the flavors of her childhood and travels across Vietnam. Her distinct approach to Vietnamese food centers seasonality and community, and she carries this ethos through all of Bé Bếp’s popups and events. She has collaborated with chefs, artists, and local farms to build projects that center care, ecology, and embodied knowledge.

Tran’s artistic practice explores the ways cooking can become a site of preservation, grief tending, and cultural futurism. Whether through culinary performances, altar installations, or guided meditations, she creates spaces where nourishment becomes a form of remembrance and imagination.

Bé Bếp continues to expand as both a kitchen and a creative research practice—one that investigates Vietnamese diasporic memory, herbal traditions, and the politics of food. Tran is currently developing new work at the intersection of ritual, performance, and culinary storytelling.