Ann Arbor’s Ji Hye Kim named a 2021 Best New Chef by Food & Wine

ANN ARBOR – Meals & Wine Journal has named native chef Ji Hye Kim as a Finest New Chef in 2021.

The thirty third class of the publication’s Finest New Cooks have endured a harrowing yr and a half in the course of the pandemic, wrote the journal.

“From coast to coast, the 2021 class of Finest New Cooks is reinventing what it means to guide within the kitchen whereas cooking the meals that issues to them most,” wrote Meals & Wine’s Khushbu Shah. “Eating places could not look the identical, however with this class of cooks on the helm, I’m excited to see—and eat—what the long run holds.”

Recognized finest for reinventing centuries-old Korean recipes in her fashionable Kerrytown area Miss Kim, Kim obtained her begin within the meals trade 16 years in the past working at Zingerman’s Deli.

Over time, she gained an increasing number of expertise within the kitchen on the deli and Zingerman’s Roadhouse. Earlier than she opened Miss Kim in late 2016 underneath the Zingerman’s Neighborhood of Companies umbrella, she ran a meals cart serving pan-Asian avenue meals for a number of years at Mark’s Carts in downtown Ann Arbor.

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With a robust emphasis on using seasonal Michigan produce and pairing inspiration from her mom’s conventional cooking with intensive analysis on the evolvement of Korean delicacies over centuries, Miss Kim has been a well-liked eating spot for years.

“I do lots of analysis into historic meals,” Kim mentioned in a 2018 interview with A4. “I began gathering the republished variations of prepare dinner books from the 14th, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and 18th centuries. And I learn them and attempt to think about the entire story of Korean meals as a result of if you happen to didn’t delve into that, you wouldn’t know that kimchi didn’t all the time have chili flakes in them. That was solely till 200 years in the past.”

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Kim has been hosting other local chefs for a series of pop ups in the course of the pandemic, together with collaborations with James Beard Award-nominated chef Max Sussman and Lala’s chef Allie Lyttle.

For extra details about Miss Kim, together with the most recent menu gadgets and pop up occasions, go to www.misskimannarbor.com.