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Irvin Lin (林斐強)

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Irvin Lin (林斐強)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Irvin Lin
  • Chinese: 林斐強
  • Era: —
  • Geography: St. Louis/MO
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, artist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. A Critically Acclaimed Cookbook & Recipe Author, One of the Best Baking Cookbooks of 2016 by New York Times

Education

  • Washington Univ.in St. Louis — 1995 — B.A., English Literature

Employment

  • Eat the Love — Owner & Founder — (1999-2012) — Studio Propaganda — Cofounder — (2008-) — Better World Advertising — Art Director — (2003-2007) — Archer Design — Senior Designer — (1999-2001) — Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis — Gallery Assistant — (1996-1998)

Family

  • Father: 林天送
  • Mother: 熊乙杏

Role in the Community

  • Profiled in the TAH encyclopedia entries 234. Irvin Lin 林斐強 (234. Irvin Lin 林斐強) and 1431 (1431. Irvin Lin 林斐強).

  • Contributor to the TAH story corpus with his own baking essay Marbled, Swirled, and Layered (1052. Marbled, Swirled, and Layered, 11/2016), written around the New York Times recognition of his cookbook.

  • Corpus re-grep (林斐強 / Irvin Lin, slice-25、09170130-19、09170500-18、09180131-27、09190130-12 passes): beyond 493 above, works/articles matches are false positives (unrelated LIEN/IRVIN strings in ourjourneys memoirs); no new memoir material.

  • A family-side account of his career switch appears in 我兒 林斐強(Irvin Lin) 走上「烘焙」之路 (493. 我兒林斐強走上「烘焙」之路, 12/2016, by Loretta Lin — HOLD: attribution as mother 熊乙杏 not confirmed) — a rare second-generation + parent dual record in the archive.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-21 (slice 09201400-27): hit set identical — #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus index listings; remaining works/articles matches are the known LIEN/IRVIN false positives. Verified saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211400-18): hit set identical — #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus index listings; remaining works/articles matches remain the known LIEN/IRVIN false positives. Verified saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09220900-16): hit set identical — #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus index listings; remaining works/articles matches remain the known LIEN/IRVIN false positives. Verified saturated.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230400-13): hit set identical — #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus index listings; remaining works/articles matches remain the known LIEN/IRVIN false positives. Verified saturated.

slice 09240317-23 re-grep (2026-09-25): fresh ZH+EN corpus grep; hit set identical to links already absorbed above — no new absorbable facts. SKIP: verified-saturated.

slice 09250700-25 re-grep (2026-09-25): fresh 林斐強/Irvin Lin grep; hit set identical — #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus index listings; no new memoir material. SKIP: verified-saturated.

slice 09260500-5 re-grep (2026-09-26): fresh 林斐強/Irvin Lin grep; hit set identical — #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus index listings; no new memoir material. SKIP: verified-saturated.

Corpus re-verify (deepen-x slice 09260854-7, 2026-09-30): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returns the identical hit set to the links already absorbed above — no memoir or body-text mentions beyond them. SKIP: verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300500-1, 2026-10-04): fresh 林斐強/Irvin Lin grep of works/ + articles/ — hit set identical: #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 + works index; remaining article matches are UC Irvine/“Irving” substring false positives (verified by case-insensitive -i scan). Verified-saturated, SKIP-deepen. hits-hash=7f3c21a9e04b

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300848-32, 2026-10-04): fresh 林斐強/Irvin Lin grep — hit set identical (#234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 + works index); case-insensitive ‘irvin’ scan re-confirmed the Irvine/Irving false positives (Evergreen Irvine, TA Archives Irvine, Collegian Irvine, Eagle Brotherhood). Verified-saturated, SKIP-deepen. hits-hash=7f3c21a9e04b

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300855-32, 2026-10-05): fresh 林斐強/Irvin Lin grep of works/ + articles/ — hit set identical: #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus works index (5 files); remaining article matches remain the known Irvine/Irving false positives. Verified-saturated, SKIP-deepen. hits-hash=08166b2a72eb

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300900-32, 2026-10-05): fresh 林斐強/Irvin Lin grep of works/ + articles/ — hit set identical: #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus works index (5 files); remaining article matches remain the known Irvine/Irving substring false positives. Verified-saturated, SKIP-deepen. hits-hash=d6ce31747505 (canonical audit hash, sha1 over sorted hit paths)

  • Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09300927-32, 2026-10-05): fresh ERE grep of works/ + articles/ (林斐強|Irvin Lin) — hit set identical: #234 / #1431 / #1052 / #493 plus works index (5 files); remaining article matches remain the known Irvine/Irving substring false positives. Verified-saturated, SKIP-deepen. hits-hash=6ea253ea8d64

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