Dubbed “The Stir-Fry Guru” by the New York Times, Grace Young has devoted her career to celebrating wok cookery. Her accolades include a James Beard award for her cookbook Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge and a James Beard nomination in 2018 for The Breath of a Wok video. She has won five IACP awards including the prestigious 2019 Culinary Classics Award for The Breath of a Wok, (the “youngest” book to be inducted into the Cookbook Hall of Fame). It also won the Jane Grigson Award for distinguished scholarship. Grace’s latest video, the Wok Therapist was released in 2019. Her family’s wok, which dates back to 1949, is currently displayed at the Museum of Food and Drink’s Chow exhibit and will soon be relocated to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History where it will continue to serve as a significant artifact of Chinese American culinary history.
Graduated from the University of Virginia.
Speaks fluent Korean and English.
Trained with Baron Baptiste in power vinyasa yoga on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Practices Muay Thai Kickboxing and Kali Eskrima.
Was encouraged to enter the Miss Massachusetts USA pageant 2 months before the event and won 1st Runner Up.
Credits her love of film to her family, who took her to the movies a few times a week as a child.
Grace and her family moved from Busan, South Korea to Virginia Beach, VA when she was age 5.
