How Mijune Pak went from food blogger to “Top Chef Canada” Judge
- 6 years ago
Mijune Pak is obsessed with food. With unbridled enthusiasm, insatiable curiosity, and a lot of hard work, she has managed to take passion for food and turn it into a successful career. She’s an international culinary expert, creator of the blog FollowMeFoodie.com, and a Top Chef Canada resident judge. Mijune has been featured as one of "The World's Most Extreme Foodies" in The Sunday Times and named “Must Follow” by The Social Media Awards.
Mijune’s love of food started early on, as a child. “My favourite part of the day would be my after school snack.” Then, while in university, doing her undergrad and studying abroad in Europe, her loved of food reached a new level. Hungry for knowledge, she was tasting, traveling, researching, and learning all she could about different cuisines and keeping a journal of her eating experiences.
On her return home, her sister encouraged her to take her food writing online and create her Follow Me Foodie blog in 2009. She wasn’t trained in journalism or the culinary arts, but she was passionate, obsessive, and inquisitive about what was on the plate, and that began to set her apart from other bloggers. Her in-depth research, drool-worthy food photos and thoughtful descriptions and analysis of restaurants and dishes began to attract a loyal following of readers and fans to the blog.
At the time, Mijune was working a full-time job in marketing for a large entertainment company. As the blog got bigger, it took up more and more of her time and eventually, she made the choice to quit her day job and start blogging full time to monetize the blog.
The blog continued to pick up momentum. She started writing a column for a local paper, doing online videos, and more travel food writing. Even with an ever increasing online following for followmefoodie.com, not everyone in the culinary community welcomed her with open arms.
With hard work and dedication, Mijune continued to build her culinary cred, international connections, and relationships with the best chefs in the world. This included Top Chef Mark McEwan who suggested producers of the show contact her for a judging position after the two met over a chef’s dinner in Vancouver. She met producers, auditioned, and was cast as one of the resident judges on Top Chef Canada where she brings a unique perspective with her wealth of international dining experience and an encyclopedic knowledge of cuisine.
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Mijune’s love of food started early on, as a child. “My favourite part of the day would be my after school snack.” Then, while in university, doing her undergrad and studying abroad in Europe, her loved of food reached a new level. Hungry for knowledge, she was tasting, traveling, researching, and learning all she could about different cuisines and keeping a journal of her eating experiences.
On her return home, her sister encouraged her to take her food writing online and create her Follow Me Foodie blog in 2009. She wasn’t trained in journalism or the culinary arts, but she was passionate, obsessive, and inquisitive about what was on the plate, and that began to set her apart from other bloggers. Her in-depth research, drool-worthy food photos and thoughtful descriptions and analysis of restaurants and dishes began to attract a loyal following of readers and fans to the blog.
At the time, Mijune was working a full-time job in marketing for a large entertainment company. As the blog got bigger, it took up more and more of her time and eventually, she made the choice to quit her day job and start blogging full time to monetize the blog.
The blog continued to pick up momentum. She started writing a column for a local paper, doing online videos, and more travel food writing. Even with an ever increasing online following for followmefoodie.com, not everyone in the culinary community welcomed her with open arms.
With hard work and dedication, Mijune continued to build her culinary cred, international connections, and relationships with the best chefs in the world. This included Top Chef Mark McEwan who suggested producers of the show contact her for a judging position after the two met over a chef’s dinner in Vancouver. She met producers, auditioned, and was cast as one of the resident judges on Top Chef Canada where she brings a unique perspective with her wealth of international dining experience and an encyclopedic knowledge of cuisine.
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Our philosophy is simple: love what you do.
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Give us a follow...
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrueCallingCA?lang=en