Word: ahn
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...spent on experimenting with her own dishes and creating new recipes, Ahn’s culinary interests extend beyond the kitchen as well. She enjoys eating and thinking about eating almost as much as cooking, and she can recommend a dish at a particular Boston restaurant for any occasion. Ahn is a faithful FoodTV watcher, an epicurious.com visitor and, most of all, an avid reader of Cook’s Illustrated, the magazine devoid of advertisements and devoted to informing its cult-like foodie following of the best products, recipes and in-kitchen procedures in a no-frills fashion...
...fall of her junior year at Harvard, Ahn discovered her inner gourmand by joining the Dunster House Culinary Team, a group of students that prepares food for events hosted by Dunster House Masters Roger and Ann Porter. Ann Porter describes Ahn as “a little dynamo in the kitchen. She’s everywhere.” This year Ahn was one of the leaders of the Culinary Team, often spending as many as twenty hours a week in the kitchen. This consuming extracurricular is put to productive use—to the reluctant pleasure of her parents?...
...when Ahn discovered that Cook’s Illustrated and its acclaimed “America’s Test Kitchen” public television program are both produced in Brookline, she tried to finagle a way into their offices to check things out. She bought Cook’s Illustrated cookbooks and practiced their recipes. She looked for internships and contacts on the inside, but didn’t get anywhere. Finally FM was able to arrange for Ahn to view the last week of filming for the 2004 season of “America’s Test...
...Ahn arrived on set just in time to watch Christopher Kimball, “America’s Test Kitchen” host and Cook’s Illustrated chief editor, pull a pan of macaroni and cheese out of the oven. This was not any ordinary collegiate Easy Mac or tired Midwestern casserole; Kimball’s take on the American classic includes four cheeses: Fontina, Gorgonzola, Parmesan and Pecorino. Ahn oohed and ahhed when given an off-camera chance to sample. Soft and fluffy blueberry pancakes followed and Ahn picked up a few tips: substitute lemon juice...
...high point of the morning came when, in between shoots, Christopher Kimball introduced himself to an ecstatic Ahn. The two made foodie small-talk for a minute before Kimball’s assistant arrived with a bag of treats: three autographed “America’s Test Kitchen” cookbooks and an apron and chef’s hat embroidered with the Cook’s Illustrated logo. Ahn toured the actual test kitchen, where employees in white lab coats experiment with dishes and test appliances and revise recipes until they are manageable even for a novice...