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When Kristen Kish gained Prime Chef Season 10, she didn’t anticipate to ever be again.
Minimize to Season 21: the winner returned to her alma mater, this time as host alongside veterans (and mates) Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio. “It felt acquainted but additionally very new on the identical time,” Kish says of her return. “It’s as snug and acquainted as one thing so uncomfortable and unfamiliar may be.”
However since profitable in 2012, “host” isn’t the one title Kish has added to her resumé. “One thing I’ve been very enthusiastic about is bridging what I do know as me being a Korean American with different firms and other people which might be Korean American,” Kish tells E! So when she was approached to collaborate on her personal line of soju, the reply was a simple sure.
The result’s Kish Apéritif. The road options 4 distinctive flavors of soju that Kish says “are primarily based on totally different factors of my life and totally different taste profiles that I’m enthusiastic about.”
“As a result of I used to be adopted, I’m studying what it means to be Korean to me by means of others” the chef explains. “That is why having the ability to associate with a Korean model and founder was such a particular alternative.”
Kish is not carried out including to her resume simply but. In April 2025, she’s releasing her debut memoir, Unintentionally on Goal, out there for pre-order now.
However within the midst of all of it, she’s nonetheless very a lot a chef at coronary heart. We requested the Prime Chef host to share the kitchen staples, cooking instruments, and internet hosting must-haves she swears by.
Store kitchen necessities impressed by her solutions beneath!
