Kristina Cho
Kristina Cho | |
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| Born | Cleveland  |
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| Occupation | Writer, blogger |
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| Website | https://eatchofood.com/ |
Kristina Cho is a James Beard Award winning cookbook author, food blogger, and content creator. Her cookbook, Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries, won two James Beard awards. She also runs the popular food blog and Instagram page, Eat Cho Food.
Early life
[edit]Cho was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Wai Tai and Wanda Cho.[1] She has a brother named Tyler.[2] Her grandparents immigrated from Hong Kong in the late 1960s and began working in restaurants.[1] Eventually, they opened their own Chinese restaurant, which became the family business.[1] As a child, Cho recalls doing homework at the counter and spending time at the restaurant.[1] She credits this as a space that sparked her passion for food and made her interested in a cooking-related career.[1] Cho began baking on her own when she was 13 years old.[3]
Career
[edit]In college, Cho majored in architecture at the University of Cincinnati[2] and pursued a career in that field before switching to food.[1] In 2014,[4] she moved to San Francisco after getting an architecture internship, but found the work to be unfulfilling.[1]
In 2017, Cho began her blog, Eat Cho Food, where she shares recipes for baked goods, entrees, and more.[1] She consistently worked on the blog, sharing a recipe each week, amassed a considerable following, and ended up quitting her full-time job in 2019.[1][5] Shortly after Cho quit, she received an email from her literary agent suggesting that she write a book.[3]
Cho released her debut cookbook, Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries, in 2021.[6] The book is one of the first modern English language cookbooks to cover Chinese baking.[1][7] As Cho was developing the book, she found a distinct lack of books or articles around Chinese bakery culture and recipes, which inspired her to provide holistic coverage of these bakeries.[1] She conducted interviews with four Chinese bakeries throughout the country to include in the book.[8]
The New York Times and The New Yorker named Cho's book as one of the top 10 cookbooks of 2021.[4] Time Out, Glamour, and Taste of Home also named it one of the best cookbooks of 2021.[4]
In 2022, Cho won two James Beard Awards in the baking book and dessert book categories.[2]
Cho is currently working on a second cookbook.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Kristina Cho Transcript". Cherry Bombe. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ a b c "Westlake's Kristina Cho Wins Two James Beard Awards for AsiaTown-Inspired Cookbook, "Mooncakes and Milk Bread"". clevelandmagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ a b "'Eat Cho Food:' How Kristina Cho turned her food blog into an award-winning cookbook". ABC7 San Francisco. 2022-11-08. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ a b c d Seeto, Margot (2023-01-20). "Where a James Beard Award-winner goes for SF dim sum". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ "James Beard Award Winner Kristina Cho Talks Baking And Dumplings – Exclusive Interview". Tasting Table. 2022-08-22. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ O'Brien, Molly (2021-09-26). "Meet Author and Baker Kristina Cho". Marin Living Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ "Westlake native Kristina Cho pens 'Mooncakes and Milk Bread' cookbook". cleveland. 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ Trinh, Brian Vinh Tien (2022-04-08). "How The Pandemic Turned Kristina Cho's Cookbook Into An Ode To Chinatowns – The RepresentASIAN Project". representasianproject.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.