You Are What You Eat, Hee Jin Kang

Name: Hee Jin Kang

Occupation: Photographer

Borough: Brooklyn

What did you eat today?

Christmas day...

Breakfast:
-Bewley's Explore Kenyan coffee
-wild Irish Atlantic salmon
-Wiltshire farm free-range scrambled eggs
-Irish wheaten loaf
-Kingdom County butter
-Billecart-Salmon Brut Rose pink champagne

Pre-dinner snack:
-Garvey's Manzanilla Sanlucar de Barrameda sherry
-Waitrose country pate on crackers
-Noires a la grecque olives

Dinner:
-rib of beef on the bone (Hereford-Abedeen Angus cross) bought from Roses Butcher, Devizes, Wiltshire
-red rooster potatoes
-Irish cabbage and carrots
-breaded mussels from Kerry Fish
-Valencia scallops
-red wine - Don Ramon Perez Juan Campo de Borja-imported by Point Bar at Rennard's Point
-Christmas pudding made by landlord's wife at George and Dragon, Rowde, Wiltshire
-Cote de Rhone from Gidden's - Chateau La Renjardiere

Dessert:
-brandy sauce with Courvoisier
-HB ice cream
-Monbazillac, imported by Wadworth...
-Ashmore Cheddar, Dorset
-Cashel Blue cheese
-Camembert
-crackers
-belgian truffles, Duc d'O
-lychees

[Wow.  I'm coming over for Christmas next year. --Ed.]

What do you never eat?
Tripe.
Marmite.
Liver.

[I do love me some Marmite on buttered toast with a cup of PG Tips, like once a year.  --Ed.]

Complete this sentence:  In my refrigerator, you can always find:

Kimchee.
Soymilk.

What is your favorite kitchen item?

my Wagenfeld teapot

Where do you eat out most frequently?

DuMont, Marlow & Sons, Max's, Cheers.

World ends tomorrow.  What would you like for your last meal?

A Korean dinner: rice, bulgogi and kalbi (marinated beef), kimchee, hot spicy jigae (stew), seaweed sheets, marinated spinach and beansprouts, tofu, and a glass of Chateau d'Yquem for dessert.

Scope out Hee Jin's genius at her website.