Joesph lee biography

Joseph Lee was born in 1849 and lived most of his life in Boston, Massachusetts. Lee was very prominent in the food services industry, having begun working as a boy at a bakery. He soon began preparing, cooking and serving food, eventually opening two successful restaurants in the Boston area. In the late 1890s he owned and managed the Woodland Park Hotel in Newton, Massachusetts for 17 years. In 1902, as a way of maintaining an involvement in the food services industry, Lee opened a catering business called the Lee Catering Company which served the wealthy population of Boylston Street in the Back Bay. At the same time he also operated the Squantum Inn, a summer resort in South Shores specializing in seafood. The catering business was a great success and during this time he became interest in eliminating a situation that had become annoying to him.

Lee became very frustrated at what he saw as a waste of bread which would have to be thrown out if it was as much as a day old. Considered a master cook, Lee had long believed that crumbs from bread was quite useful in preparing food, as opposed to cracker crumbs which many others favored. He decided that instead of simply throwing stale bread away, he would use it to make bread crumbs. He thus set out to invent of device that could automate tearing, crumbling and grinding the bread into crumbs. He was finally successful and patented the invention on June 4, 1895. He used the bread crumbs for various dishes including croquettes, batter for cakes, fried chops, fried fish and more. He soon sold the rights to his bread crumbling machine and the Royal Worcester Bread Crumb Company of Boston soon had the devices in major restaurants around the world.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Lee looked for another way of improving food preparation and invented an automatic bread making machine. The machine not only mixed the ingredients, but also kneaded the dough. The machine was so fast and efficient it was able to perform the

American actor, artist (born 1987)

Lee Joe-yun (born December 29, 1987), known professionally as Joseph Lee, is an American actor and artist. He is best known for his role in the Netflix limited series Beef (2023), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Career

Lee was born in Arizona and raised in Indiana. He started acting in high school. He studied political science with a minor in history at Purdue University in Indiana. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in the early 2010s to pursue acting, but soon additionally took up painting, especially portraits, inspired by inherited photographs of his late father. Though it began as a hobby, art became a significant part of his career as his work developed a following on Instagram.

In 2018, Lee worked in South Korea as an actor in the drama series The Miracle We Met.

Lee played George Nakai, the sculptor husband of Amy Lau (Ali Wong), in the comedy drama Beef, which was released on Netflix on April 6, 2023. He found the show "refreshing" in its layered portrayal of Asian-American life. At the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, he was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Beef.

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Joe Lee was born in Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Leeds, on 16 May 1901. He won a scholarship to Leeds Grammar School, and showed such a talent for art that, in about 1915, his widowed mother managed to find enough money for him to attend Leeds College of Art. Here his contemporaries included Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Carr. Lee left the School of Art in 1918, and in 1919 took a correspondence course with Percy V. Bradshaw, sending specimens of his work to London papers. Despite the rejections, his mother found £20 for him to go to London, where he freelanced until the money ran out. He then found a job in the art department of an advertising agency.

Lee’s first published cartoon appeared in The Bystander in 1920, and in the following year, when still only nineteen, he became political cartoonist on the ailing Pall Mall Gazette, with a Press Gallery pass for the House of Commons. Strand Magazine described him as “the youngest of the men of his craft who have now an established reputation.” Lee spent hours sketching from the Gallery, and never forgot the disillusionment of discovering “the contrast between a Member’s official utterances on the floor of the House, and the private opinions that Member afterwards expressed in the smoking-room.”

In 1923 the Pall Mall Gazette was absorbed by the Evening Standard, and Lee moved on to the Liverpool Daily Courier, as cartoonist and Art Editor. In 1924 he returned to London to work on the Sunday Express, and also did some work deputising for Strube on the Daily Express. However, at this time Lee had left-wing sympathies, and in 1926 he resigned from the Sunday Express over its coverage of the General Strike. He managed to support himself with freelance work, producing a daily political or social cartoon for the Daily Chronicle, as well as syndicated cartoons for Allied Newspapers, and cartoons for Bystander, Tatler, Sketch, London Opinion,

The battalion crossed to France early in 1915 and was involved in the battles of Aubers Ridge and Neuve Chapelle, and then, in September, in the Battle of Loos. When he could, Lee was writing and sketching, recording life in the trenches and on the battlefield in his poems, which were sent back to the Dundee Advertiser for publication. Lee’s poems were much appreciated in his native city; he became known as ‘the Black Watch poet’.

Lee was promoted to sergeant. Initially refusing a commission, he eventually agreed to train for one, and became a lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1917. In command of ‘A’ Company, 10th Battalion, Lee was reported missing during the Battle of Cambrai. In fact, he had been taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war in the internment camp at Karlsruhe. The camp became the setting for his sketches (which were popular with his captors) and his last literary output of the war, a diary which he later developed into a book.

In Karlsruhe Lee wrote no poetry, and very little after the war ended. After his return he worked in London, and married and settled down with the viola player Dorothy Barrie. During the Second World War Lee served in the Home Guard, at the same time working as sub-editor of the News Chronicle, until poor health finally made him retire in in 1944, after which he and Dorothy lived in Epsom. Lee made his final return to Dundee in 1947, where he lived until his death in 1949.

Ballads of Battle, Lee’s first book of war poetry, was published in 1916 by John Murray, and Work-a-Day Warriors in 1917. A review in The Scotsman of December 27, 1917, describes his poems as ‘at once simple, strong, and neatly and pointedly wrought’, and declares the accompanying sketches to have ‘a kindred vigour and efficiency of pleasing artistry’. Lee’s sketches and poems illustrated the friendship between soldiers not just of the same army, but of the different nations standing together against the enemy – Australian, Iri