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Grace Choi has food on the brain. Whether she’s daydreaming about her next meal of oysters and cava, planning an intimate dinner party of chanterelles and smoked duck, delving into an unfamiliar cuisine, or writing a paper on cross-cultural dinnertime conversation patterns, food is what gets her out of bed and occupies her thoughts throughout the day.
Grace and her brother were raised in Northern Virginia by Korean immigrant parents who approached food with reverence and gusto. The stories they shared with their kids of post-war Korea were often about what and how they ate: street vendors selling puffed rice snacks, classroom furnaces that doubled as lunch warmers, Korean mothers buying cans of Spam on the black-market to the delight of their families. From a young age, Grace fixated on the unique ability that food has to conjure up strong emotions, from comfort and nostalgia to even embarrassment and longing. She observed these sentiments in novels by Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and her own school cafeteria. She spent much of her childhood mentally cataloging which foods would allow her to blend in at school (bologna sandwiches) or stand out (Korean garlic chive pancakes). This was the beginning of her lifelong fascination with the relationship between food and identity.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, Grace realized that the idea of not pursuing a lifelong career in food was unimaginable, so she enrolled in the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Following an externship at Thomas Keller’s per se, she moved to Italy to work as a sous chef and cookbook co-writer for the award-winning vegetarian restaurant The Country House Montali. (The cookbook, titled Vegeterranean: Italian Vegetarian Cooking, was released in London in 2008, and in the U.S. in 2012.)
She then returned to New York and enrolled in the Food Studies doctoral program at New York University, studying under the psychologist Carol Gilligan, to study the intersections of food and ethnic identity among second-generation minorities in America
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Almond Extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Colored sugar and sprinkles, optional
Melted chocolate candy coating, optiona
Directions
Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine flour and salt. Gradually add to creamed mixture; mix well.
Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press dough 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. If desired, decorate with colored sugar and sprinkles.
Bake 6-8 minutes or until set (do not brown). Remove to wire racks to cool completely. If desired, dip baked cookies in melted candy coating and decorate with sprinkles. Let stand until set.
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