Making bulgogi with The New York Times

Hi everybody,
I’m so excited today because there’s an article in The New York Times about me, on the front page of the Food section! A couple weeks ago Julia Moskin from The New York Times came to my house to film a video where I show her how to cook bulgogi.

Of course I film in my apartment all the time, but she came with a big crew: 2 cameramen, a food stylist, a director, and a sound man, with a huge cart of equipment. There was so much stuff, I asked them if they were moving in! My apartment is pretty small, so they put all of it in my bedroom.

When I film my videos, I’m the director, but this time I had to listen to them and take direction. Sometimes I gave them my idea on what to film, and often they accepted. We worked together to make the best video we could.

Me and Julia talking about bulgogi

Serious dudes filming food!

And of course we have to eat! After the video shoot, we all sat at the table and ate the food, plus more food that I made for them.

Mira taking a photo for Instagram

When ‘don’t eat the shoot food’ turns into ‘eat the shoot food…and more’. Thank you for the wonderful food and hospitality @maangchi #wwllt @nytimes

A photo posted by Mira Evnine (@miraevnine) on May 22, 2015 at 2:25pm PDT

Then Morgan Ione Yeager came and took food photos for the article, and also my portrait.

It was a fun day, and the video and article turned out well. It was great to meet these talented people who are all passionate about sharing food, like me!