Emshika Alberini & Chef Sohui Kim

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Emshika Alberini Emshika is the chef/owner of Chang Thai Cafe and M-ZO Tea & Co, both located in Littleton, New Hampshire. She’s been a generous supporter of Radio Cherry Bombe and Heritage Radio Network, so we invited her to join us as our first-ever guest host. Emshika grew up in Bangkok and learned to cook from her mother and grandmother. She moved to New York in the early 2000s and earned a master’s degree in organizational management from Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y. She then moved to Littleton and opened her cafe in 2008. Unable to get a loan, she financed the entire thing on her credit card. Chang Thai found an audience and in 2014, Emshika opened M-Zo Tea & Co next door. Business NH Magazine recently named the establishments as two of New Hampshire’s five best women-led establishments. Sohui Kim Sohui is the chef and co-owner of Good Fork, a neighborhood institution in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Insa, the new Korean bbq and karaoke spot in Gowanus. Sohui was born in Seoul, Korea, and lived there until the age of 10. In 1981, she immigrated to the United States and took up residence with her family in the Bronx. She later graduated from Barnard with a degree in liberal arts. After working in the architectural publishing business, Sohui was close to applying to law school when she got bit by the cooking bug and attended The Institute of Culinary Education instead. She completed her education with an externship at Blue Hill under chefs Dan Barber and Michael Anthony and went on to work for Anita Lo at Annisa in the West Village. She and her husband Ben Schneider opened the Good Fork in order to express her unique culinary perspective: a hybrid of her time in Korea, the Bronx, and the fine dining kitchens of Manhattan. Her favorite karaoke song is “We Belong” by Pat Benatar.

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0:00.0	This is Sherry Bayer from All in the Industry.
0:03.2	You're listening to Heritage Radio Network, broadcasting live from Bushwick, Brooklyn.
0:07.9	If you like this program, visit Heritage Radio Network.org for thousands more.
0:16.3	Boys and girls are on by herda. Boys and girls are all fired up.
0:35.4	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Radio Cherry Baum. I'm Claudia Wu. And I'm Carrie Diamond. And we're the founders of Cherrybaum, the indie magazine about women and food. Today's show is brought to you by Acole Chocolat, the online school for those looking to become chocolate makers or chocolate experts. The great thing is that you can study at your own
0:54.8	pace. So if you have a day job but dream about having your own chocolate company one day,
0:59.1	you can make it happen. Be sure to check out the site at acolshacolotot.com. We should have done a,
1:05.3	we should have done like a season long project where we learned how to make a chocolate bar.
1:09.3	And every week we'll have like one more piece of the chocolate done. It might not be too late for us to do that. I bet you'll have your own chocolate line one day, Claudia. Possibly. Or my friend wants me to do a bakery. We'll see. Really? Yes. Wait, you didn't tell me about this? Well, I made homemade fortune cookies the other day with her. Oh, I feel like I heard of, wait, is this Diana? Diana, yeah, yeah, I totally burned my fingertips off, but it was totally worth it. She made the batters, which were matcha and black sesame, and they're amazing. Yum. But yeah. Can we hire you to make these at Nightingale 9? Oh, yeah. She has a whole plan.
1:44.9	She's like, Claudia, you're so good at manual labor.
1:49.1	It can be my night job.
1:50.5	Claudia is good at other things, too.
1:52.5	Anyway, we have a really special show today because we have a guest host, our very first guest host, Emchika Albarini.
1:59.4	Hi.
1:59.7	Hi, from Changtai Cafe in MZOT, T, and company in Littleton, New Hampshire.
2:05.8	As you know, Radio Cherrybaum is part of the Heritage Radio Network, and during the year-end pledge
2:10.6	drive, Mishika was incredibly generous and snagged one of our pledge gifts, the opportunity to host an
2:16.6	episode of the show.
2:17.8	So we are super excited to meet Meshika for the first time and to welcome her to Radio Cherry Bomb.
2:27.7	We even busted out the sound effects for you.
2:29.9	I think we've never really had sound effects here.
2:32.0	So we're going to chat with Mishika for a few minutes and then welcome our official guest.
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