The (South Korean) Presidential Counsel on National Branding is hosting a cooking video contest. They are asking for English language recipe submissions. So I submitted my video for kalbi, but I had to remove most of the music soundtrack for this contest and re-upload it. The videos have to be posted by March 31, 2010…
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Help LiNK win $250k from Pepsi to help North Korean refugees
“…LiNK seeks to establish Liberty House, a six-month to a year transitional housing program which will provide newly arriving and recently-arrived North Korean refugees with critical assistance such as food, clothing, shelter and medical attention as well as a safe, nurturing and positive environment and community; while providing other development services (job training, career counseling,…
The 11th day of tteok: Ottogi curry tteokbokki
As our 12-day tteokbokki (떡볶이) sauce countdown to the Korean New Year nears an end, we consider a Korean-Indian fusion curry sauce developed by Korean food company Ottogi in the late 1960s. Koreans have put their own spin on curry and consume a lot of it. Today, I’m featuring Ottogi’s hot curry paste in a…
The 10th day of tteok: Hawaiian tteokbokki
As we head back west across the Pacific on our 12-day tteokbokki (떡볶이) sauce recipe countdown to the Korean New Year, the next stop is Hawaii. America’s 50th state is also the first place many Asian immigrants settled in the 19th century. Hawaiian cuisine is synonymous with Asian fusion cooking as immigrants from Japan, Samoa,…
The seventh day of tteok: Chicken in mole poblano tteokbokki
For today’s installment of the 12-day countdown to the Korean New Year, I’m bringing tteokbokki (떡볶이) to the new world, first stop in Mexico. Due to the labor-intensive nature of traditional Mexican mole sauces, I am not going to make this mole from scratch. The mole that Americans recognize is mole poblano. Wikipedia says, Mole…
The second day of tteok: Thai green curry tteokbokki
On the second day of my tteokbokki (떡볶이) marathon, here’s a recipe for Thai Green Curry Tteokbokki. The Thai green curry sauce recipe here is slightly modified from one posted online by the BBC. Remember with all tteokbokki recipes, you start by soaking your garae tteok (가래떡), which are the fat cylindrical rice noodles traditionally…
A 12-day countdown to the Korean New Year with tteokbokki
I’ll be posting 12 tteokbokki recipes over the next 12 days leading up to the Korean Lunar New Year (Eum-nyeok Seollal, 음 력 설날) in response to the South Korean government’s campaign to make the rice cake dish the linchpin in their international marketing strategy for Korean cuisine. The government wants Korean cuisine and culture…
Japanese study finds salty foods may increase cancer risk
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports, Increased intake of salt may boost the risk of heart disease, while increased consumption of salted foods may increase the risk of cancer, says a new study from Japan. … Statistical analysis showed that people with the highest intakes of sodium – 6,844 milligrams, equivalent to about 17…
Bojagi in the USA
For centuries, Korean women have been using ornate pieces of cloth (which Koreans call pojagi or bojagi) to carry around personal items, clothes, bento boxes, valuables and gifts. In years past, these techniques had fallen out of favor as the 20th century brought a preference of using plastic bags to carry personal items, groceries, etc….
Mushrooms in my yard, not on my plate
I found these growing in one of the common areas of my housing development last week after a few days of intense rain. The recent rains had given them something to drink, and they had quite the growth spurt. I don’t know what kind of mushrooms they are. I didn’t pick them and I certainly…