Jae is our Senior Financial Officer and was born in Toronto but luckily her Korean parents moved to Montreal before she could become a Leafs fan. Her passion for food has brought her to work in the food industry first, for a chocolate company and now, Chicken Farmers of Canada. She secretly wishes to become a chef someday and expose the world to Korean food. Her greatest sadness is that her husband’s averse in spiciness prevents her from overindulging all her meals in red pepper.

1. Who taught you how to cook?

My mom is the best cook I know however, when she teaches, she is not able to give exact proportions so I end up doing a lot of trial and error using my husband as a guinea pig.

2. When preparing Korean dishes, do you find it hard to adapt traditional recipes to local available products, or can you stay fairly authentic with what is available to you?

There are about 8 base ingredients with which you can make most traditional Korean recipes and Asian grocery stores carry most of these ingredients. Otherwise, my parents supply me with Toronto kimchi and other produce.

3. What is your favourite chicken dish?

I think we have St-Hubert on speed dial for delicious roasted chicken!

4. If you were to open a Korean restaurant one day, what would you call it and why?

Good question! Probably something boring like Jae’s.

5. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life what would it be?

Red bean ice cream. Don’t judge.