Chef Evelyn Garcia Of Houston’s Jūn Is Giving It Her All

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Chef Evelyn Garcia is the chef of Jūn, the Houston restaurant she owns and operates with her friend, Chef Henry Lu, and which specializes in New Asian American cuisine. You might also recognize Chef Evelyn from “Top Chef 19,” which took place in her native Houston. Chef Evelyn joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about Jūn’s cuisine, giving 2000%, and what community means to her. Thank you to OpenTable for supporting this episode. Click here for tickets and more information on the Cherry Bombe + OpenTable “Sit With Us” series and here for the Cooks & Books festival. Hosted by Kerry Diamond Produced by Catherine Baker and Jenna Sadhu Edited by Jenna Sadhu Editorial Assistant Londyn Crenshaw Music by Tralala, “All Fired Up” Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Evelyn: Instagram, Jūn restaurant, Kin Houston

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0:00.0	Hi, boys and girls are all fired up.
0:07.0	Hi everyone, you're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond.
0:21.6	Coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City, I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb magazine, and each week I talk to the most interesting women and culinary creatives in and around the world of food.
0:35.6	Today's guest is Chef Evelyn Garcia of June,
0:38.4	the Houston restaurant she owns and operates with her friend,
0:41.2	Chef Henry Liu.
0:42.5	June is a bright spot on the Houston dining scene
0:44.8	and specializes in what Evelyn and Henry call New Asian American cuisine.
0:50.0	Think Gulf Shrimp Agua Chile with avocado, taro, and shrimp oil,
0:56.8	salmon with oolong tea, turnip, trumpet mushrooms, and gramolada, plus great cocktails, mocktails, and desserts.
1:01.3	Some of you might even recognize Chef Evelyn from Top Chef 19, which took place in her native
1:06.5	Houston.
1:07.4	The Cherry Bomb team and I had the pleasure of eating at June last week as part of our
1:11.0	Sit With Us Community Dinner series with Open Table. I can't wait to chat with Chef Evelyn
1:15.5	and learn more about her time cooking in New York, her Houston roots, and what community means to her.
1:21.3	Stay tuned. Thank you to Open Table for supporting this episode. As mentioned, we are in the middle
1:26.4	of our Sit With Us Community Dinner series with Open Table. It's spotlights amazing female chefs and female-led restaurants. We will be in Brooklyn on Saturday, November 11th at Chef Camille Baceres As You Are at Ace Hotel Brooklyn. I know there are a lot of Chef Camille fans out there. To snag a ticket, head to the as-you-ar page on
1:44.7	OpenTables app or website and tap the experiences tab. Come solo and you can sit with us at one of our
1:50.9	community tables or come with a friend or two and we'll make sure you sit together. Chef Camille has a
1:56.1	great evening planned for us. Learn more at Cherrybaum.com. Now, let's check in with today's guest.
2:03.7	Evelyn Garcia, welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb. Oh, thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here.
2:08.8	Let's start at the very beginning. You grew up in Houston. What do you remember from your childhood?
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