1KHO 903: Kids In The Kitchen | Jack and Emmy Zhang, Weeknight Winners : Family Dinners

**Ginny Yurich** (0:00)
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I'm the founder of 1000Hours Outside. And I'm honored to have a couple today that is incredibly inspiring. They're inspiring not only in terms of the food that you eat, but they're also very inspiring in terms of parenting and how they're passing along knowledge and how there's so much communication to their son Levi. You know, they're passing on all of this, like the vocabulary. It's just remarkable to see. Jack and Emmy Zhang, welcome to the two of you.

**Jack Zhang** (1:35)
Thank you, Ginny.

**Ginny Yurich** (1:35)
Thank you.
I mean, I'm sure everyone's saying the same thing. But you have this son. I don't know how old he is now. But you have a cookbook that's coming out. He's about four or five. He's young. He's young. He's five now. So he's young. And you have been including him in your cooking. You know, since he was a little, a little guy and, you know, and including him in eating, eating all of this variety of food. And you just see, you can like literally see the intentionality of your parenting in the way that he communicates and holds himself like his presence. So it's remarkable to see and very inspiring. So I would love if you would start at the beginning. Every family needs to eat. You know, most families, it's like a three meal a day type situation. But most families are not necessarily doing what you're doing with like using this as an opportunity for Levi to like build connection with you and learn all of these different things.
Where did that spark start?

**Jack Zhang** (2:37)
Well, I've always been a big foodie. And growing up, my background with my family, my grandmother used to make home cooked meals, dinners every night for my sister and I. And I think that kind of like from at least from my background with food, that's where it started. Now, I never was into cooking until probably a little after college, is when I really got into cooking. And that's when I really fell in love with just the art of cooking and developed my passion and that's how I started my career as a chef.
And I've been cooking professionally for a little over 10 years.
And then I embarked on this journey of sharing my passion with Levi when he was, I think he was only two and a half when we made our first video. And I, you know, at first I was just kind of doing it for fun. Didn't really think any of anything of it. You know, I just wanted to have something to do and share with my son.
And the first video, I remember that people just really gravitate towards was I made like seared scallops. I think I put like a little caviar for like garnish.
And he was literally not even three yet in a high chair. And I served it to him and then just got his reaction. You know, I didn't know if he was going to like it or, you know, what, what if I didn't have no idea what was going to happen. And he just was so curious. And immediately his reactions toward the dish was just so genuine and like so adorable. And I think that's how it got started. People were like, what's going on? Like never seen a two and a half year old eat this type of dish before. So I started to cook more and more, you know, extravagant meals for him in the beginning. And just serving it right in this high chair and seeing like what his reaction would be, right? And kind of talking through the dish with him, like explaining what this is and, oh, maybe you should give that a try.