Peking duck recipe ming tsai biography

BySteven John

To look at the career of Chef Ming Tsai today, and you'd never think he considered doing anything with his professional life other than pursing his passion for the culinary arts.

And here's the secret: he didn't. That degree in mechanical engineering from Tsai earned from Yale?

Peking duck recipe ming tsai biography wikipedia

Just a quick blip on the radar. Because Tsai grew up around cooking, it was only natural he would gravitate back to it — eventually launching his award-winning restaurant Blue Ginger, in addition to multiple cookbooks, and his Emmy-nominated show "Simply Ming." 

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Every story starts somewhere, and as Ming Tsai told Mashed during a recent interview, the central narrative of his life story started in the kitchen of the restaurant his parents opened in Dayton, Ohio, called Mandarin Kitchen.

But then again, in another way of thinking about it, Ming Tsai's story starts