Cover Photo: An image of a stick of butter melting on a plate
Photograph by Matt Ortile for Catapult

Shaping Butter Helps Me Feel Everything

What I mean is, butter puts me in my body.

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Katie Okamoto's writing has appeared in Catapult, The Atlantic, Eater, TASTE, Metropolis, and BuzzFeed Reader, among other places. She participated in the 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop for non-fiction and memoir and is at work on a book. Formerly, Katie was the senior editor at Metropolis, the architecture and design magazine, in New York City. Find them at katieokamoto.com.