Judy Joo: International Korean Food Ambassador
01/28/25 • 51 min
The Banter
The Guys talk about the 20th anniversary of the wine film Sideways and its impact on the industry.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys talk with chef and television personality Judy Joo. Judy strives to make Korean food accessible and educates the naive on the wonders of the cuisine. and marvels at its metamorphosis.
The Inside Track
The Guys get acquainted with Judy and find they all share a passion for their life’s work.
“Just like with you guys, if you're in this industry it's absolutely crazy! You have to inherently love it cause it's tough. It's really tough,” Judy Joo on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2024
Bio
Judy Joo grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Columbia University. After some time in banking, she switched careers and attended The French Culinary Institute for Pastry Arts. Later, she moved to London where she worked at several of Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants.
In 2015, Joo opened up her own restaurant in London called Jinjuu in Soho, London, which expanded to three locations. She left the Jinjuu brand in 2019 and then opened a fast casual concept, Seoul Bird in 2020 in London. In 2021 she opened another location in Canary Wharf and then in the Aria Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas in 2022 and in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in 2023.
Joo was one of the four Iron Chefs on the cooking show Iron Chef UK, making her the first female Iron Chef in the United Kingdom and the second globally. She was a resident judge on season four of the Food Network show The Next Iron Chef, and Kitchen Inferno. She hosted Korean Food Made Simple.
Info
Judy Joo
https://www.judyjoo.com/
Judy’s latest book (available for pre-order)
K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less
Judy Joo’s home kitchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ADfkG4yrM
The New Zoo Review
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The Banter
The Guys talk about the 20th anniversary of the wine film Sideways and its impact on the industry.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys talk with chef and television personality Judy Joo. Judy strives to make Korean food accessible and educates the naive on the wonders of the cuisine. and marvels at its metamorphosis.
The Inside Track
The Guys get acquainted with Judy and find they all share a passion for their life’s work.
“Just like with you guys, if you're in this industry it's absolutely crazy! You have to inherently love it cause it's tough. It's really tough,” Judy Joo on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2024
Bio
Judy Joo grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Columbia University. After some time in banking, she switched careers and attended The French Culinary Institute for Pastry Arts. Later, she moved to London where she worked at several of Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants.
In 2015, Joo opened up her own restaurant in London called Jinjuu in Soho, London, which expanded to three locations. She left the Jinjuu brand in 2019 and then opened a fast casual concept, Seoul Bird in 2020 in London. In 2021 she opened another location in Canary Wharf and then in the Aria Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas in 2022 and in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in 2023.
Joo was one of the four Iron Chefs on the cooking show Iron Chef UK, making her the first female Iron Chef in the United Kingdom and the second globally. She was a resident judge on season four of the Food Network show The Next Iron Chef, and Kitchen Inferno. She hosted Korean Food Made Simple.
Info
Judy Joo
https://www.judyjoo.com/
Judy’s latest book (available for pre-order)
K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less
Judy Joo’s home kitchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ADfkG4yrM
The New Zoo Review
Friday, March 14 is the first Restaurant Guys LIVE with Chef Rocco DiSpirito at the NBPAC in New Brunswick, NJ (next to The Guys' restaurants!)
Restaurant Guys' Regulars get a discount code for VIP tickets. Become an RG Regular today!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2401692/subscribe
Get tickets here.
https://secure.nbpac.org/rocco-dispirito/22947
Our Sponsors
The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center
https://www.theheldrich.com/
Magyar Bank
https://www.magbank.com/
Withum Accounting
https://www.withum.com/
Our Places
Stage Left Steak
https://www.stageleft.com/
Catherine Lombardi Restaurant
https://www.catherinelombardi.com/
Stage Left Wineshop
https://www.stageleftwineshop.com/
To hear more about food, wine and the finer things in life:
https://www.instagram.com/restaurantguyspodcast/https://www.facebook.com/restaurantguys
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TEASER! Deborah Koons Garcia and The Future of Food Pt 2
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This is Vintage episode from 2005
The Banter
The Guys talk about restaurant reality shows and how they are not grounded in reality.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys welcome Deborah Koons Garcia, widow of Jerry Garcia and creator of the documentary The Future of Food. This is part two where they discuss more of the concerns of genetically engineered products, herbicide overuse and they wonder if some of the critters its killing is us.
The Inside Track
The Guys had so much to talk with Deborah in the previous show that they spontaneously invited her back to be on again. Their conversation went to food access and what we can do to help provide to those in areas of need.
“ They need healthy soils, they need roads, they need infrastructure so they can get their crop out, they need stable markets. There's all kinds of things they need, but the patented seed from a corporation that is to be used with a chemical...how are they going to afford to buy Roundup?” Deborah Koons Garcia on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2005
Bio
Deborah Koons Garcia has a Master of Fine Arts from The San Francisco Art Institute. She owns her own production company in the Bay Area of California. Later in her career, she focused primarily on films about agriculture and the food system.
Her film The Future of Food won awards from the Women Film Critics Circle and the Ashland Film Festival. In 2011, Symphony of the Soil, was released and was designated a Critics’ Pick by the New York Times and was shown at the United Nations on World Soil Day.
Info
Deborah’s film
https://thefutureoffood.com/
Center for Food Safety
https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/
The Meatrix
https://www.themeatrix.com/
Current info about GMO
https://www.nongmoproject.org/
GMO Labeling Timeline (up to 2020)
https://agrisk.umd.edu/post/gmo-labeling-timeline-what-happened-and-why-part-i
Our Sponsors
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Our Places
Stage Left Steak
https://www.stageleft.com/
Catherine Lombardi Restaurant
https://www.catherinelombardi.com/
Stage Left Wineshop
https://www.stageleftwineshop.com/
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Andrew Carmellini, Urban Italian
The Banter
The Guys discuss what a world-renowned owner did when crowds infiltrated his speakeasy.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys speak with Andrew Carmellini, acclaimed chef and author of Urban Italian, a cookbook he created with his wife in his home kitchen in Manhattan. Andrew shares some stories and favorite dishes including an ingredient some Americans might find unusual with pasta.
The Inside Track
The Guys talk with Andrew about what’s next for him. This was just before he was approached by Robert DeNiro to open Locanda Verde in the Greenwich Hotel in NYC. Here’s what he had to say about cooking Italian.
“A lot of my best customers would come up to me and the things they were loving the most and coming back and requesting were a lot of the Italian stuff. So when I went out on my own as a chef, I really wanted to do Italian cooking because it really made people happy, my Italian food,” Andrew Carmellini on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2008
Bio
Andrew Carmellini began his cooking career at age 14 in his hometown of Seven Hills, Ohio. Carmellini worked at restaurants in Europe, including Valentino Marcatili's two-star Michelin restaurant San Domenico. In New York, he spent four years on Gray Kunz's New York Times four-star team at Lespinasse and served as sous chef at Le Cirque.
Andrew worked as chef de cuisine at Café Boulud, where he earned three stars from The New York Times, won The James Beard Foundation's Best New Chef and Best Chef: New York awards and was named to Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs roster. As chef at A Voce, he earned a three-star New York Times review and a Michelin star.
In 2009, he opened Locanda Verde, a Tribeca Italian taverna, in Robert de Niro’s Greenwich Hotel with partners Luke Ostrom and Josh Pickard.
With his wife, Gwen Hyman, Andrew is the author of two books of recipes and stories: Urban Italian, and American Flavor.
Info
Andrew Carmellini
https://www.andr
Friday, March 14 is the first Restaurant Guys LIVE with Chef Rocco DiSpirito at the NBPAC in New Brunswick, NJ (next to The Guys' restaurants!)
Restaurant Guys' Regulars get a discount code for VIP tickets. Become an RG Regular today!
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Get tickets here.
https://secure.nbpac.org/rocco-dispirito/22947
Our Sponsors
The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center
https://www.theheldrich.com/
Magyar Bank
https://www.magbank.com/
Withum Accounting
https://www.withum.com/
Our Places
Stage Left Steak
https://www.stageleft.com/
Catherine Lombardi Restaurant
https://www.catherinelombardi.com/
Stage Left Wineshop
https://www.stageleftwineshop.com/
To hear more about food, wine and the finer things in life:
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