Who's Cooking: Rui Yang
Photo credit: Johnny Milano | Rui Yang with his dish of spicy clams. On holidays he cooks with Chinese friends.
The third-year PhD candidate in chemistry at Stony Brook University lives in Lake Grove.
How long have you been cooking? I'm originally from Shandong province, near Beijing, and came to America two years ago. I started cooking a lot when I got here. It was cheaper to cook than to go out. As I progressed, cooking became a way to reassure my parents that everything was going well here....