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Jenny Lee is the chef/owner of Kiuda MKE. In the Korean language, Kiuda means to take care of kids, pets or plants. Food is a way of nourishing others. Not a brick-and-mortar business, Lee holds pop-up dinners and teaches Korean cooking classes. She worked as a line cook for Bravo's Top Chef Judge Tom Colicchio at Colicchio & Sons in New York City. She worked as a line cook for Chef Jean-Georges at The Mark Restaurant. She moved back to her home state Wisconsin. She cooked at Sanford restaurant in Milwaukee. After she had her son, she signed up to make food for meal trains for mothers who recently had a baby. From there, she started a food business in 2019. Lee prefers cooking the food her mother made. 

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Lee won "Best Flavor" by the judges' vote at Battle of the Chefs Milwaukee in 2022. This August, she and Chef Bryce Stevenson of Miijim collaborated on a menu that merged Ojibwe and Korean cuisines.

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​​Lee and her business partner are currently working on building a rental kitchen in Brookfield.