But unlike a lot of TV food personalities, she’s not a trained chef. "Every time we got new orders, my parents would do the research and say 'Look at how they eat there!'" Sunny recalls. I have parents who made kimchi - we are black!" "My mom made kimchi in Germany the real way – she actually put it in the earth. This week on The Sporkful, Food Network star Sunny Anderson talks about growing up on Army bases all over the world, her own time in the Air Force, and all the foods she ate along the way - from blood sausage to bibimbap to Spam. "My Mom would knock on our next door neighbors’ - the Trans, a Vietnamese family - : 'Excuse me, can you show me how to make spring rolls?'" Sunny says. "I’m that way too now because I saw her do that."Īfter high school, Sunny joined the Air Force and went to basic training - where the food culture was unlike anything she'd experienced growing up on military bases around the world. "It was like going to jail," she says of the food in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. "Your goal was to rush to eat so you can get back up and get dessert. It was tough."Įventually Sunny was stationed in South Korea, where she got her start in entertainment - as a radio broadcaster in the Air Force.Īnd while she was there, she did what she learned to do growing up: EAT GOOD FOOD - especially bibimbap (BEE-beem-bop), rice and vegetables cooked in a stone pot, topped with a fried egg and a dab of spicy, funky fermented soybean paste called gochujang:Įaters, I'm a huge fan of bibimbap. For one thing - it's a masterful case study in bite consistency. Sunny says bibimbap is both ubiquitous and beloved in South Korea - not unlike another dish I often site in discussions of bite variety vs.
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