"Jenny Liu"

Officially. Some will call me “Jen Jen”, if feeling whimsical, or “Jenny Famewhore”, if alluding to the satirically misnamed rock band that four of my best friends and I created when we were bored and 15. The Famewhores transformed into a rap group once we discovered our lack of marketable musical talents. We are still waiting to assume our rightful place as superstars.

I graduated in May 2010 with a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from Boston College, where I was also a food columnist for the Heights.

These recent 4 years, you may have found me: building houses in Norristown, PA; teaching English in Brighton, MA; eating fettucine alfredo made tableside in Rome, Italy; struggling with high-school Spanish in Barcelona, Spain; cramming for finals at smoky Excelsior Cafe in Tokyo, Japan; haggling over prices in Taipei, Taiwan; jumping through rings of fire in Koh Phi Phi, Thailand; riding on a motorcycle to a cliff-side, monkey-infested temple in Bali, Indonesia; ordering dukbokgi from street vendors in Seoul, Korea; and discussing Central American politics with the judicial attache in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Currently, I manage events for Meridian Marketing Strategy. Unable to resist the call of Asia, I have embarked on a three month adventure in China to develop tea products for Rocky Mountains Tea & Coffee ®. Follow me on my treks through tea plantations in the rural Chinese mountainside and food adventures in urban Nanjing, Shanghai, and many more places on my blog!

"A kind of primal scene of eating hovers over every cookbook, just as a primal scene of sex lurks behind every love story." – Adam Gopnik