66. A hybrid restaurant - Genie Kwon from Kasama in Chicago.

Genie Kwon is the chef and owner of Kasama in Chicago. She grew up in New Orleans, studied at university and then decided to become a baker and chef. That led her to working in some of the best restaurants in the world, among them Eleven Madison Park and Oreole in the US and with Janice Wong and Andre Chiang in Singapore. In 2020 Genie Kwon opened Kasama, a modern Filipino restaurant by night and a French-American bakery by day, together with her husband, chef Tim Flores. In the podcast we will hear Genie Kwon describe her passion for her profession and how she got involved in the award winning tv-series The Bear, in which she also featured. At the end of the podcast, she will reveal her favourite places for pastries, deep dish pizza and hot dogs in Chicago. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Obvi klippt av @thepodfather_magnus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.