Charlie Rose: San Francisco Benu’s Chef Corey Lee


To be honest, I have never heard of chef and restauranteur Corey Lee nor the San Francisco restaurant Benu until I watched a recent episode of the PBS late night talk show Charlie Rose. But seeing a Korean American chef being interviewed on TV certainly caught my eye, as do other Asian American chefs like David Chang and Ming Tsai.

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Lee was a guest on the show to help promote his new cook book titled, benu, which he describes as a 33 course tasting menu (which is not something offered at his restaurant). Lee also highlights his background, life and philosophy around food to Rose in this interview.

About John

I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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