Ming-Na Wen moves into the kitchen with a cookbook and YouTube channel

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe warrior of Disney's Mulan and Marvel's Agent May has entered the kitchen, and this desk regards the development with the utmost seriousness, the South China Morning Post reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo what actually happened? Somebody's in a kitchen?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMing-Na Wen has a cookbook called Have You Eaten Yet, a memoir of sorts about growing up in her family's restaurant, and a YouTube channel called Wen in the Kitchen.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA cookbook and a channel. Fans saw her cooking pictures online and asked for recipes. That's the whole mobilization.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorShe says she felt like a fraud, until her literary agent suggested sharing recipes as a storytelling vehicle.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA crisis of legitimacy, resolved by an agent. I have seen governments fall over less.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFraud? She's a Disney Legend.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWorse still, the family does not cook with recipes at all. Instinct and technique, no measuring cups.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorShe then gathered nearly two hundred recipes and had to pare them down to four chapters.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo she wrote down two hundred things her family does by feel. Every comment section will now argue about how much salt that is.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI give it a seven for gravity.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI will be requesting the chapter Hong Kong With Mom in person, Kenji. You should go to a restaurant once. Sit down. Order something.