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Hi everyone, you are listening to Radio Cherry Baumond, coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Prokfeller Center in the heart of 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. Today's guest is Elia Park, the award-winning New York City restaurateur and self-proclaimed mom

of the Otto family.

Elia and her husband, JP, are the forces behind Auto Boy, Automix, Narrow, and the new

Sol Salon here in New York City.

Narrow, in fact, is located at Rockefeller Center, a 30-second

walk away from newsstand studios. I've been fortunate to eat there, and it is a beautiful

spot with food that Elia and J.P. describe as new Korean cuisine. Elia will tell us what that

means exactly. She also shares the incredible story of how she came to New York

from Seoul with no job and very few contacts and became a celebrated and beloved hospitality pro

here in New York City. Otto means gift in Korean and Elia has been such a gift to the folks who love her

and her establishments. I can't wait for all of you to meet Elia Park.

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Now, let's check in with today's guest.

Elia Park, welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb. Korea is so honored to be here today. Oh, the honor's all mine.

So let's jump right in because I have a million questions for you. Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Seoul in Korea, South Korea. And tell me some of your food memories. Who cooked when you grow up? What did you eat? So my mom was busy when I was young. So my grandmom cooked for me all the time. And when I think about my food memory is bowl of the rice, the grilled seafood, and some soup and many kinds of bansan. So whenever I wake up, I smell some of grilled seafood. The grilled fish is the cherished food memory. Tell people what panchannes. So when you go to a Korean restaurant, you're going to see a lot of side dish on the side of the barbecue. So that it calls banschan. It could be vegetable. It could be seafood. It could be meat.

Usually the mom make all the pancans and keep in the fridge.

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