An Ann Arbor Restaurant Fuses Korean Tradition with Modern-Day Michigan Ingredients
Ji Hye Kim, owner of Miss Kim, tells us how the mid-autumn festival Chuseok exemplifies her mission to integrate Midwestern produce into traditional dishes.
September 7, 2022
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When Ji Hye Kim first moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, she didn’t find much that resembled the homemade Korean cooking she’d grown up with. In 2016, in an effort to fill this gap, she opened Miss Kim, where her aim is to fuse traditional Korean recipes—like those her mother would cook—with the distinct produce of Michigan and the Midwest. But Kim, who was named one of Food & Wine’s best new chefs of 2021, didn’t always see a culinary career in her future.
