Graduation from culinary school!

Photo: Young K. Lee

It's been less than a week since I graduated from The French Culinary Institute on March 31st, and I still look at my photos over and over again. Graduation was bittersweet. My classmates and I became pretty close, getting together to study in Level 1 and hanging out after class ended late at night. We e-mailed class notes and text-messaged each other about cooking techniques. We gave one another pointers about how to make sure those lamb chops were medium rare for service at L'Ecole, and we talked about how to make agnolotti into perfect pasta pillows filled with herbed goat cheese.

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P.S. I've been super busy. Last week, I ended my internship at SeriousEats.com, passed my final and graduated. This week, I started working as an intern in the Saveur test kitchen. I'm testing recipes for the magazine and I'm learning a lot!