The Lawyer Who Quit Big Law to Work For a Food Museum

In his windowpane-plaid suit, slightly worn wing tips and geek-chic spectacles, Peter Kim was looking every inch the hipster Debevoise & Plimpton associate. It was the official opening of Brooklyn’s MOFAD Lab, the exhibition space of the Museum of Food and Drink. Culinary hot shots like chefs Elizabeth Falkner and Bill Telepan mingled with local politicians and Kim was working the crowd with ease.

But the 34-year old lawyer was not on hand to represent Debevoise. In fact, he had given up his 45^thfloor-views of midtown Manhattan and six-figure salary more than three years earlier to help develop and ...