Spice up your pastrami with kimchi. (Photo by Tammy Quackenbush) Delis all across the United States offered free or reduced priced pastrami sandwiches in honor of “National Pastrami Day” today. Inspiration can come in the most unusual places. I went to Togo’s today to check out their “Pastrami guarantee”. I brought it home and customized…
Jamie Oliver’s wish: Teach every child to make dishes
In prior generations, food was a tool mothers — sometimes, fathers — used to teach offspring history, culture and religion. How will the next generation know how to eat healthfully — and understand themselves — if they aren’t taught? asks celebrity chef Jamie Oliver as part of his Food Revolution campaign. He is telling us…
Dairy farming in Pyeongchang? Really.
Imagine getting up close and personal with some Korean dairy cows? (Photo by Samuel Rosa via sxc.hu creative commons license) If the Daegwallyeong Snow Flower Festival or the world-class skiing in Pyeongchang doesn’t entice you to travel over to Gangwon-do, consider checking out the Pyeongchang Cheese Experience Center, which is scheduled to open to the…
Koreafornian Cooking in 2010
2010 was a year of major progress. I became a key contributor to two major Korean food and culture new media sites and wrote an article for a culinary arts magazine. I started 2010 as a new editor at ZenKimchi Food Journal, covering the Korean food scene in the San Francisco Bay area with restaurant…
Recipes: Three ways to make Korean beef broth
The base to any soup or stew, Korean or otherwise, is a good broth or stock. This article will discuss three methods for adding beef flavor, from the easiest to the most complex. Debra Boutin (Bastyr University photo) Debra Boutin, M.S., R.D., chairwoman of Bastyr University’s Department of Nutrition and Exercise Science, described the healthful…
Sempio Recipe: Acorn Starch Jelly (Dotori Muk)
Dotori muk, aka acorn starch jelly. You can find blocks of it in most Korean grocery stores. It comes unseasoned. This recipe shows you an option for seasoning it. Sempio is a popular Korean sauce that just started their own YouTube channel in July 2010.
New culinary classes carry Korean cuisine to the masses
Demand for Korean cooking classes in culinary schools or Korean ingredients on grocery stores shelves is a visible sign a cuisine is becoming more popular in a particular country.
Making kimchi with local ingredients
This video was filmed in the hills of Lake County California, just north of Napa Valley to make a point about “regionalizing,” or adapting recipes for local ingredients. “Regionalizing” is a trend in culinary circles. Fermented foods are becoming popular for their health-promoting benefits. Baechu kimchi, the commonly recognized Korean red-pepper spiced picked cabbage side…
Another kalbi video
This 13 minute video comes with another recipe for mixed rice. However, one piece of advise. Don’t throw away the beef broth from the first rib boiling, like she did. It’s a broth you can keep and freeze to make a soup in the future.
Kogi-inspired Kalbi taco recipe with Korean BBQ sauce and slaw
I found this recipe on a YouTube channel called ZacharyZachary. The video is 10 minutes long, which might seem a bit long for a cooking video but you get three recipes for the price of one in this video: kalbi, BBQ sauce and Korean coleslaw. So just watch it and learn a little something, although…