Along with butter, ketchup, and chili sauce, one of the key items I have in my fridge at all times is a jar of kimchi. This addiction started a few years ago. I had been a casual fan for a while, eating it periodically in Korean restaurants. But after a one-week trip to Seoul in [...]
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Korean Braised Short Ribs (Kalbi Jjim)
Slow-cooking meat in a nice enamelled cast iron Dutch oven is a pretty sublime experience. I’ve done my fair share of braising in metal pots, woks, Crock-Pots, and even sauté pans, but really, nothing compares to the ease of searing and stewing everything in the same pot, and one that needs minimal heat to stay [...]
Korean Cinnamon Tea
The smell of cinnamon brings out the New Englander in me. One whiff and I would start pining for apple orchards, hayrides, and a big piles of raked leaves ready to be jumped in, even though I actually grew up in a city and rarely did all that bucolic fall stuff. But ’tis the time [...]
Barley Tea – Mugicha
I have been bombarded with writing deadlines recently and thus have been neglecting my poor blog. And something else has suffered. The amount of work, the dry Beijing air, and wind from sandstorms have given me a bit of a sore throat. (Okay, that and some recreational drinking and recreational spicy food intake over the [...]
Apple Soju Cocktail
If Korea had an official national beverage, it would be soju. Instead of trying to sum up soju’s place in Korean culture, I’ll defer to a passage by Ines Cho in an article called “Moving Beyond the Green Blur: a History of Soju”: Soju is the powerfully pungent alcohol that, as some Koreans insist, can [...]
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