The report’s author and chief industry analyst at NPD Harry Balzer said: “Microwaving has been flat for two decades, but it increased last year as Americans found a way to eat at home and not cook. We’re using our microwaves to warm and heat more, but not prepare more dishes from scratch.” How disappointing. Americans…
Another reason Americans are fat!
About a year ago, someone on soompi.com posted some very disgusting food photos on a thread in their food forum. The photos came from a website called This is why you’re fat. When I saw this ice cream vending machine near the restrooms at the Napa Premium Outlet Mall in Napa, Calif., the first thought…
Eat your kimchi for fewer wrinkles
A study published in the October 2007 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that “bowl of kimchi a day may keep wrinkles away.” People who have diets rich in Vitamin C have fewer lines than those who graze mostly on carbs and fats. Kimchi is an excellent source of Vitamin C, packing about 80 percent…
Sonoma County wheat?!
I was walking through Raley’s bread aisle (a rare visit for me) and found their Sonoma 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread staring back at me on the shelf. I know advertisers and marketers are given a lot of leeway in terms of “truth in advertising” but this takes the cake. Sonoma County produces less than…
Bae Yong Joon-ssi, do you really want to be a farmer?
During his press conference on September 22, 2009, launching the debut of his book Search for the Beauty of Korea, Hallyu star Bae Yong Joon told the media, “For me, farming. I want to be a farmer. You know how to do farming, don’t you? I want to step on ground. I want to touch…
Kimchi Chocolate?
For those of you who didn’t believe me when I told you people actually buy and eat this stuff, here’s a video by an ex-pat singing its praises. It stings your lips and burns your mouth, and your fresh breath will then go south…What does it taste like? Tastes like snorting tabasco straight up your…
Korea, please show President Obama the Beauty of Korea!
Photo courtesy of opencage.info (http://opencage.info/pics/large_4856.asp) The Chosun Ilbo reports that the Blue House staff are conflicted over what kind of booze to serve President Obama when he shows up in the Republic of Korea later this week as part of his pan-Asian tour. Meanwhile, the government has yet to choose whether to serve the traditional…
Korean fusion cooking in Napa County
This was the first interview I’ve ever done for YouTube. Usually, in my videos I talk, you listen and then you can respond in the comments section below the video. That’s the way cooking videos usually work. The give and take communication is indirect. We had scaled back our normal production as well. We didn’t…
American Coffee Survival: A response to Korea Coffee Survival
I don’t post too many recipes on this blog because I share most of my recipes on my YouTube page but sometimes an idea comes along that is so off the wall, or off-topic that I have to share it in a forum other than YouTube. This is one of those “recipes”. I put the…
Nov. 11 is Pepero Day
QiRanger explains Pepero Day. Sunil passes along a few Pepero Day legends. Nov. 11 is called Pepero (빼빼로) Day in South Korea, where the day has become an annual tradition. Pepero Day has become a “second Valentine’s Day,” when people give each other packages of the chocolate-covered pretzel-like sticks as well as other sweets. Koreans…