Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner's Acorn Jelly Salad Recipe Is *Chef's Kiss*

As Japanese Breakfast was still in its beginning stages, lead singer and frontwoman Zauner worked different jobs to get by. According to Vox, she "spent her early 20s waiting tables and trying to get her music hustle off the ground." After her mother died in 2014, she briefly thought about putting her music career on the back burner "to pursue a career path that was more aligned with what her late 'tiger mom' would have wanted her to do" (via Teen Vogue). She briefly worked with an advertising company but was laid off nine months after starting, which only helped to propel her work with Japanese Breakfast.