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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan

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NYT bestselling author of James Beard Award Winning book: The Korean Vegan. I hate racism. I love kimchi. I still lawyer for BigLaw but opinions are my own.

Suburbia, CA
Joined October 2012
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Too many ppl trying to rain on my parade.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
“Was this racially motivated?” “We don’t believe so.” “Why’s that?” “Because the white mass murderer told us so.”
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
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This is not the first time this has happened, but this one REALLY annoys me. Unfortunately for "Rachael Issy," you can't cut and paste the two emblems that come with the original. @Avery_Books
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
THREAD: My law firm is publishing something I wrote to its internal webpage. Here it is in thread form:
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Hey SHERIFF: A mass murder caused by a lifetime of Asian fetishization is a RACIALLY MOTIVATED CRIME
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I shared a red sauce recipe on my IG Live today—a recipe I developed with my father in law (from Rome)—which I then used to make a pasta for my Italian husband (who found it delightful) and like clockwork: “STOP CULTURAL APPROPRIATING ITALIAN CUISINE!!!”
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
This isn't just a bad day for women. It is a bad day for everyone who is not a white man. Period.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
It is important to set goals: in 3 years, I would like to make Korean vegan food for @BTS_twt 🇰🇷🌱🍜
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
This introvert is going to a dinner by herself and is petrified. Wish me luck.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I finished!!!
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
My discussion of FRCP 11. As always, my opinions are my own and nothing herein constitutes legal advice.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
The Korean Vegan is a James Beard Award winner.
@beardfoundation
James Beard Foundation
2 years
For Vegetable-Focused Cooking: The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma's Kitchen by @thekoreanvegan #jbfa
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Remembering how annoyed I would get with my parents for relying on my English. And then seeing a sobbing Asian grandma with blood on her face after she was attacked by some white dude and wondering who is translating for her.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I am a NYT Bestselling Author.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Trial during quarantine.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
@Jen_OneN At many large law firms, on the day the bar exams come out, they send out a memo to all first year associates with a list of the attys at the firm who didn’t pass the first time. ❤️
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Per the request of @gtconway3d I humbly submit this companion piece to the Op-Ed that @BradMossEsq and I wrote together on FRE 802 and PRC 3.1.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Not my typical outfit for the studio/kitchen. 😄
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I think of these things now and realize, it’s my differences that can make me powerful.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
@GShaneMorris I am 42: just quit my FT job to pursue my passion, start my own business, write a NYT/James Beard winning book, and make more $ than I ever have. Childless and only just finding my purpose. You are a sad man already.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
How good does that look? Was at a party and met someone from Italy. We got to talking and she mentioned pesto Genovese, a dish from Genova. Pesto + potatoes + green beans + pasta. Made it last night and it was definitely a winner!!
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Today I watched a TikTok where two women made “fried rice” by cooking it in broth and butter to make it “creamy.”
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
(A) there is no proof of them being sex workers; and (B) even if they were that doesn’t somehow make them (i) genderless, (ii) raceless, or (iii) any less deserving of the justice codified in the laws of their goddamn country. Yes the US is their country.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
To the vegans who are asking me to turn a blind eye on xenophobia/racism b/c it was done in defense of animals, let me say this: the quickest way to lose all credibility in the eyes of diasporic communities who might otherwise be plant curious is by being xenophobic and racist.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Thinking of starting a podcast where I talk about complicated or relatively unknown laws (e.g. felony murder doctrine) and their potential applicability to current events in politics or elsewhere. This would be designed primarily for non-lawyers. Do you think this would fly?
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
“I for weeks have warned there would be violence on Jan 6... When you don’t have the courage as a leader to tell the truth..you get a capitol storm like this.” @RepKinzinger
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Men like this still exist. He also happens to be a lawyer. And somehow, some people think that Asians are not people of color. #abg
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
My husband is a classical concert pianist and I told him once I would never tire of hearing him play. And then the pandemic happened.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
This is quite possibly the most satisfying moment of my legal career.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Ppl who tell me to stop swearing are missing pieces of their souls.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Hubby has tested +. We were both boosted. I am still -. I am canceling all the things and making lots of chigae.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
It’s that time of year….
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
JURY: BLACK LIVES FUCKING MATTER.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Someone gave my book a 1-⭐️ review b/c it’s “impossible” to find the ingredients so I guess having a Korean cookbook that calls for miso instead of doenjang and paprika instead of gochugaru would make it 5⭐️and we wonder how we got to accusations of whitewashing in everything
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Making kimchi.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
a young asian american woman was stalked, tortured, and stabbed to death in her home yesterday morning and while I know there's a path between the knowledge of that and this inexplicable grief I can't seem to walk it and sometimes I wish the world would pause for a bit so I could
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I once asked a man what he thought of the Oxford comma. He answered, “I am a proponent.” I married this man.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Portrait from this morning’s Lunar New Year shoot.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Let’s normalize the denormalization of asking women in their 40s why they don’t have kids
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
My husband (Italian american) likes to say Korean words he’s learning around the house and has been saying “I want to drink coffee!” I finally broke it to him today: he’s been saying “I want to drink nose bleed!” for the past several weeks. 😂
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
I am super proud of this thing.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
By the time my heart was sound enough to have children, to give them the parents they deserve, my ovaries had all but checked out. I decided to commit my life to other pursuits. Regret can coexist with joy. Don’t politicize what is often a person’s most personal choice.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Tonight’s dinner!
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
My book is sold out at all major retailers and so many ppl like it and this is the first second I’ve allowed myself to believe that maybe it’s not JUST because I have a big social media following but because I wrote a damn good book.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Ready to go!! My entirely vegan red bean pecan pie. I created this recipe to represent the Korean and the American in me and my family. Might I suggest a scoop of vegan vanilla ice cream with this?
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
My rage isn’t toxic. Your silence is.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
This morning I signed another book deal and I feel like I can finally call myself a “writer.”
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
A book about Korean vegan food has been nominated for a James Effing Beard.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
This is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but wanted to share this with my Twitter fam, since this is where so many surreal moments have taken place! Thank you again to @BradMossEsq for asking me to join forces with him to fight the good fight!
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
1 year
Went to Costco on a whim. Bought this because I liked the color of the bag. Turns out it is filled with addiction. 🤣😅
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
When you put Korean ricecakes (garraetteok) in the air fryer.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I am not leaving the practice of law or my Firm—but now, my legal practice will be a component of The Korean Vegan and pursuing the causes I feel passionate about.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I once went on a date with a white guy who, while we walked from my car to his apartment, looked around at the ppl walking by us, muttered, "I'm worried they'll think I'm with a prostitute." I was wearing a black turtleneck dress--I had come straight from the office.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
I did a thing.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
I literally miss no food from going vegan. My family makes the best food.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
1 year
Pesto tteokbokki.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Showing him how to slam dunk. In the kitchen. ☺️
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Yes. Because I’m Korean American and vegan, I am somehow the authority on the fact that a very tiny fraction of Korea (among many other countries including non Asian ones) eat dogs. In case it’s not clear, this is ridiculously offensive and racist.
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@thekoreanvegan can you get korea to stop eating dogs?? thx...❤❤
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Rather stunned to be sharing this moment with two incredible women. @PadmaLakshmi @blackforager @beardfoundation #jbfa
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
I went all out for dinner yesterday!
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
@PadmaLakshmi Not only is this laughably/embarrassingly wrong (like 2+2=75 wrong), the comparison to French/white food as the implicit standard by which all other foods should be measured is so revealing.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Imagine getting aroused by the death of over 600,000 Americans instead.
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Tomi Lahren
3 years
New Zealand locks down over 1 COVID case. Sounds like a Democrat’s wet dream.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
I am 42 years old, been working at my firm for 17 years, and I just texted my BFF at work to make sure he'll be at the attorney luncheon this wednesday so I have someone to sit next to if no one talks to me.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
11 months
I mean... she couldn't even be bothered to come up with her own freaking chapters.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Stupid people vote for stupid people. There. I said it.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Just scored a vaccine appt for my Dad and feel like I just handed him the Hammer of Thor but I think he was way more impressed with the LCD tv I got him for his bday tbh
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Work portrait edition: How it started: How it’s going:
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
He was also a total a$$hole about it.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
“Robert R. Lynn, a registered Republican and Trump supporter in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly requesting an absentee ballot for his mother, who died in 2015.”
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Russell Brown
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A Trump supporter in Pennsylvania is being charged with voter fraud and forgery for allegedly requesting an absentee ballot for his dead mother. via @HuffPostPol
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
That’s the way it’s done. No kimchi for you.
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@thekoreanvegan On the floor? I'll pass thanks.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
A reporter asked me the other day “have you heard of the storytelling while cooking genre of videos?” I was proud when I answered “I created that genre.” ☺️
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Ok. I’ll say it: I think sourdough tastes like “why would you ruin a perfectly good loaf of bread by injecting it with vinegar?” 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
1 year
Tteokbokki with ramyun = rabokki.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Thank you all for your overwhelming support today. I was unprepared for it all but am so flattered I could barely speak all day. Anyhoot, I thought a small addition to my handle was merited. 🤓
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Someone (a fellow Asian American) told me that he didn’t realize I was Korean b/c how “dark my skin is” and I am surprised by how much this comment is affecting me.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
As a young lawyer, when my next-door neighbor said, “you people are ruining the neighborhood,” I stood rooted to the pavement that joined our homes, and looked her squarely in the face as I said, “What a racist thing to say,” thinking of my father who lived just a few doors down.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
So about last night’s dinner… @IamTabithaBrown !!!! ❤️💕
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
This introvert is going to a dinner by herself and is petrified. Wish me luck.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Who wants 고구마 (sweet potatoes)?
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
The amount of overt racism that is permitted to thrive in our country is so demoralizing.
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Gov. Mike Huckabee
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I’ve decided to “identify” as Chinese. Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my “values” and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to @MLB games. Ain’t America great?
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
I was asked to update my media assets so I took some self portraits. Do I look like an author-lawyer-TikToker?
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Hi. I am an author today. Am I appropriately dressed for the occasion? #pubday
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
Anyone else super excited about #PartnerTrack ? Kdrama meets Suits and basically my life story up until about a year ago…. Also I need to update my wardrobe to include more pink suits.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
So tired of white ppl telling me I need to get over my rage at racism. Sorry.
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Alyssa Milano
3 years
We’re going to need a lot of humility and compassion right now. Anger and triumphalism is less helpful.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
If I have to explain to you the difference between the breach and desecration of the Capitol and the looting of Target, you should take that performative American flag down right now it’s embarrassing
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
4 years
This website has renewed my hope for a country I thought I loved. I thought it would just be a few laughs but these videos are so much more. ⁦ @RVAT2020
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
My husband is a Naumburg winning pianist who recorded his first album at Abbey Road and is quite literally one of the most talented musicians on earth and will be composing music for my YT videos b/c he doesn’t care about how tall my shadow looms b/c he helps to build it.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
It is always strange when a non-Korean person tells a Korean person what Korean food is and isn’t.
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@thekoreanvegan Korean food without fish isn't Korean food.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
It wasn’t the judge, it wasn’t the jury. It was a system that enabled them.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
Y’all…. I can’t even tell you how badly my heart was pounding for the 7 minutes it took for my dad to say anything. Also, this video has over 262k likes on TikTok and it makes me cry thinking of how my dad, the socially awkward nerd, is so beloved. ❤️
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3 years
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these. They are usually tongue in cheek but this one isn’t. I’m not a criminal lawyer (I handle only what’s assigned to me as a member of the trial bar). Some of this was informed by my chat with a felony prosecutor. #HateCrimes
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
11 months
For clarity, Avery is my publisher and the management of copycats is an ongoing discussion. They are the most supportive, wonderful, amazing publisher on the planet.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
I was inspired by @MichelleLiTV and her #VeryAsian movement to put together a 고모 video on TikTok while finishing off the very last of my mandoo filling. 🇰🇷
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Nick Laparra
2 years
I love @TheKoreanVegan so fucking much. This video is everything.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
2 years
White supremacy on trial, with a white judge, white lawyers, and a mostly white jury and it shows
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
@JennaEllisEsq @AriMelber @JoyAnnReid The 3d circuit doesn’t “grant” appeals. You appeal by right. They granted your motion to expedite the briefing schedule. Are you even a lawyer? This is embarrassing for your law school and professors.
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
My mom told me not to come over for Thanksgiving this year, periodt. Was sad and proud at the same time. So I guess I’ll be making my own japchae, egg rolls, boochimgae, gamja jorim, and Mac n Cheese this year (my standard Thanksgiving fare for years)! 😋😋😋
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Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan
3 years
This post was inspired by @BradMossEsq !
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