Knuckle Salad is about making things a little bit better than they need to be. Whether it’s making comfort food a little fancier, familiar things a little crazier, or holiday decorations really worth talking about, the idea is to take an ordinary thing and turn it gently on its head. And although this blog is here to showcase ideas that might not have occurred to you, its goal is to inspire you to make up creative combinations of your own. Experiment!

KnuckleSalad.com is itself an experiment, a labor of cooking/baking/crafting love by Kristina Ackerman, who is also an artist, designer, and jewelry-maker in Atlanta, Georgia. If you’re curious, you can—and should!—peruse Kristina’s art and graphic design portfolio at likeahouseonfire.com. The recycled-comics-and-games jewelry she makes on the side (yeah, that’s experimental too) is chiefly a local business, but you can see what’s up at gangbustersjewelry.com.

Knuckle Salad is fortunate enough to be involved in The Daring Cooks and the FoodBuzz Tastemaker program. Kristina is also a proud member of both the Atlanta Food Bloggers’ Alliance and the Magic is Science art collective.

Contact Kristina via the Contact page. That form is your ticket to email city. All aboard! Whoo-whoo!