Lola Milholland

Lola Milholland is a Portland, Oregon-based food-business owner, social-practice artist, and writer. She runs Umi Organic, a noodle company that supplies public-school lunches. She previously edited Edible Portland. Her debut book, Group Living and Other Recipes, was published by Spiegel & Grau in 2024. Her essays and writing have appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Time, and Gastronomica. She also writes the Group Living newsletter. Oregon Humanities has published her work and hosted a 2021 oral-history and food-culture workshop she led. Her Oregon Humanities contribution includes the essay "Kitchen Ghost" in the Feed issue.