Grace Young, known as a wok evangelist, has won many awards including the IACP Le Cordon Bleu International Cookbook Awards for her first book The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing and her second book The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and [...]

Queens-based food writer, Joe DiStefano has been exploring the borough’s diverse food offerings for more than a decade and has been called “The Guy Who Ate Queens” by New York Magazine. DiStefano writes for the print publication of Edible Queens and is the editor of Edible Queens’ food blog, World’s Fare, which chronicles whatever happens [...]

Born Baek Seung Woo in Korea and raised in Colorado, Akira Back has been executive chef at the Yellowtail Japanese Restaurant & Lounge at the Bellagio resort and casino in Las Vegas since 2008. He’s served notables such as U.S. President Bill Clinton and Mariah Carey. Back trained with some of the best chefs in the [...]

Eddie Huang (photo courtesy of Hyun Kim) Opening two restaurants in less than six months is a feat that would push any chef-entrepreneur to the point of exhaustion or criminal insanity. But Eddie Huang, “head cook” and owner of Baohaus and Xiao Ye in New York, still finds time to write a blog and travel [...]

We’re expecting a new ZenKimchi team member in December. Her current name is “Alkongi,” or “Eggbeany.” Looks like a lizard right now, but I hear that he’ll become a cute baby that cries and poops. Share