Esther Choi

black and the blacks barbecue the dueling families uh so a lot of barbecue down there they'll have that there and then you get to sample you know the texas monthly puts out their top 50 barbecue joints and that's all there and it's such a cool spot and texas playing at 11 o'clock you can get down there also keep up with the other games but i'm sure they'll have them on tv and some of the establishments down there in lockhart that's a great way to spend a saturday and then another and sunday by the way

yeah another really good austin event the austin food and wine festival goes friday to sunday and uh you can find you can find uh sample bites from top local and national chefs watch live cooking demonstrations enjoy wine beer and cocktail tastings uh this year's event features an incredible chef lineup with some of austin's best chefs including ali clem amanda turner A lot of people with names I can't pronounce, as well as nationally known TV personalities and chefs like Esther Choi, Andrew Zimmerman, and more.

And you can find more info on this at WineFoodFoundation.org.

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I like Esther Choi as well.

She's a Korean-American chef.

And can I say Anthony Bourdain? Of all time, Anthony Bourdain.

On the show today, we'll speak with the playwright and the lead actors of the Ki- King of the Yees, which opened last night to great reviews.

But let's get this show started with Esther Choi.

[upbeat music] You know Esther Choi as host on the Food Network, and as the founder of Mokbar, the James Beard Award-winning restaurant, and the chef behind the Lower East Side gastropub, Ms. Yoo, named after her grandma.

Now, in her debut cookbook, Choi pays tribute to her grandmother again.

The book is called Hand Taste: Cook Like a Korean Grandmother.

It features a variety of Korean and Korean-inspired recipes, alongside stories from Choi's upbringing between New Jersey and South Korea, and learning the ways of the kitchen from her grandmother, who passed away in January of this year.

The cookbook w- will be published a week from today, and that night she'll be in conversation with food writer Eric Kim at the Korea Society.

But Esther Choi joins me now in studio.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Coming up on the show this week, tomorrow, Esther Choi will be here to talk about her new cookbook.

It's titled, Hand Taste: Cook like a Korean Grandmother.

On Wednesday, actor John Turturro joins us to talk about his new film, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.

It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever you get your books.

So if you want confidence and knowledge, check out Hand Taste by Esther Choi.

It is available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever you get your books.

Esther, thank you so much for joining me in the booth.