About Harry
A life of
paying attention.
I’m Harry Pagancoss. I write about food, culture, and the lives we rebuild.
Much of what I understand came from kitchens, from travel, and from the moments that didn’t go according to plan. Those experiences still shape the questions I bring to my work.
Kitchens & journeys
Food opened the door.
I spent years working in food and media, developing businesses and hosting television about food and travel. The work took me into different kitchens and cultures, and into conversations I still think about.
I became interested in what people carry with them: ingredients, habits, recipes, and the small things that survive when everything else changes.
Over time, those questions led me to writing.
Places & people
Making somewhere to gather.
Restaurants and design are part of this story, too. Through projects such as Caravaca Market and Harry Bakes, I’ve worked with food, spaces, and the experience of welcoming people.
That interest continues through my interior design work. A room, like a meal, asks us to consider how someone will feel when they arrive.
Some of it worked.
Some of it didn’t.
Both mattered.
A moment that stays
A place in the embroidery.
In Caravaca, Spain, Peña Minipua honored me by including my likeness beside the city’s mayor on the mantle a horse wore for the Horses of Wine festival.
It was a major honor, and it remains an important moment in my story.
The work now
The questions come with me.
Today, my work moves through books, film, and projects that let me keep exploring how we become who we are—and what happens when life asks us to change.
In Savoring Failure, I return to the kitchens and experiences that shaped me. The Foods They Carry follows food through displacement, adaptation, and belonging.
Origins and the Atlas of Origins extend that curiosity into the histories behind what we encounter every day.