Clarissa Wei is a journalist and award-winning cookbook author.

Her debut cookbook, Made In Taiwan, is a celebration of the island nation she calls home. It won the 2024 IACP Julia Child First Book Award and was a finalist for the 2024 James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Foreign Policy, among other places.

Previously, she was a senior reporter at Goldthread, a video-centric imprint of the South China Morning Post.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, she currently lives in the hills of Taipei. Her second cookbook, Sitting the Month, will be published by Norton in 2026.