I am a seventeen year old wannabe Molecular Biologist with an eye on Columbia University and a passion for cooking. My cat and my computer are the two loves of my life. Haha. I love Asian food. It is art in edible form and my most preferred style of cooking. Specifically, Japanese and Korean cooking I find the most rewarding. Fun, ornate, and absolutely delicious! Outside of ethnic cuisines, anything with thick, dense, dark chocolate, or spinach, or peppers galore I will probably give more than a glance. Blueberries are a plus, too! Every Thanksgiving my family gets together and every house brings a dish. My family is very Southern, and most meals would give any health freak a coronary just by sight. Pecan pie, green bean casseroles, and my step-grandmother's random Polish dishes cascade along with multitudes of other dishes across three tables and bring to mind a particular Disney Sequence: "Be... Our... Guest!" And never forget the after-dinner-mints before dinner beside the nut-cheese-and-cracker dishes. It's a fun family tradition, even to someone as picky as me. I have yet to surpass the Chocolate Lava I created with my neighbor at the age of seven by combining everything in her kitchen with either chocolate or peanut butter in the list of ingredients in a large ceramic bowl and baking it for 3/4 of an hour. A melty, calorie-filled mess. =) My first attempt at Kimchi failed terribly when I tried to ferment it in the fridge. It was bad enough that it began to seep, but worse still when my mother's restaurant leftovers splattered its container and contents all down the back wall of the refridgerator. It was on the second-from-the-top shelf. =(