Introduction

Chef and budding TV personality Daniel Harthausen is one of the most exciting voices in food, having just won the first season of HBO’s very good cooking competition show The Big Brunch and running the roving pop-up Young Mother in Richmond, Virginia. Harthausen was raised by a Korean mother and a half-Korean father and “had a baseline of what really good Korean food tasted like, without really knowing it at the time,” he told Matt during a Zoom conversation earlier this year. He was visiting New York recently, and we asked him to stop by the studio for a really cool conversation about his travels, his loot (he won $300,000 on the show), and the delicate topic of Korean-Japanese relations. He’s got a lot to say, and we were so excited to have him in.

MORE FROM DANIEL HARTHAUSEN:

• Daniel Harthausen’s Big Korean-Japanese Brunch Is Special [TASTE]
• Brunch Time [Richmond Magazine]
• Richmond’s Daniel Harthausen wins big [Richmond Times Dispatch]

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