Chef

Kim Kushner

Spending childhood summers in Israel with her extended Moroccan-Israeli family, Kim learned to cook by eating, and by participating in family feasts. Kim excelled in the Professional Culinary Program at the prestigious Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, and after stints developing recipes at Food & Wine and Chile Pepper magazines, she found herself working as a private chef for some of New York City's most discerning eaters and teaching private cooking classes out of her own kitchen. Her culinary style, much like her life, is a study in Modern Orthodoxy: her kitchen is Kosher and very much in line with her upbringing and heritage, yet she is young and her perspective is fresh and new. The feedback Kim most loves getting from her client is that they were not only inspired to try her recipes at home but to make some changes to them-it's proof to her that she's right: anyone can cook, and everyone should cook.