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September 1, 2011

I will be a guest speaker for the One Circle Community

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Hi, I wanted to let you know that One Circle Community. One Circle Community is ” The OCC is a non-profit organization that aims to help people explore human diversity while feeling the common threads that interconnect us all.” 

Here is their write up and I think you can sign up for the event here on Facebook. 

Here is their write-up.

We’re excited to announce September’s OCC guest speaker, Daniel Gray.

A Korean adoptee, Daniel Gray was reunited with his birth mother in 2008 and she regularly sends him gifts of homemade kimchi, persimmon, and sesame oil. Daniel Gray started his journey in food as the sidekick to New York Times writer Matt Gross when he came to visit Korea in 2007. He has gone on to write for appear in many publications and productions in Seoul and around the world. He appeared in Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods, Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie Television, Food Network, The Kimchi Chronicles and many more productions. Mr. Gray has taken the success of his blog (www.seouleats.com) and turned it into a successful business. These days his company, O’ngo Food Communications, is offering Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers to Seoul. He says his company’s goal is to have visitors to Korea, “experience culture through the cuisine.”

Come take a cooking class or take a Culinary Tour in Seoul! http://www.ongofood.com
Pictures are taken either with my Panasonic DMC-G2 Camera with 20mm Lens or with my iPhone 4G
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About the Author

Daniel
Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.




 
 

 

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