This is the first in a series of recipes from my brother Ben, a talented up-and-coming chef in Atlanta. A graduate of Johnson and Wales in Charleston, Ben has worked in some of the coolest restaurants in Atlanta, including Pricci, Corner Cafe, and Portofino. He is now sous chef at the famous tapas bar, Eclipse [...]

Jason Perlow (eGullet, Linux Magazine) has posted an enticing droolscape of Mandoo Bar in Manhattan’s Little Korea on his food blog Off the Broiler. Share

Frank Bruni, the somewhat controversial New York Times food critic, has given a somewhat decent review of David Chang’s new restaurant, Momofuku Ssam Bar. Significance? Well, it’s a bit of a Korean themed restaurant that is getting some buzz in New York. Chang himself is of Korean descent, and the word ssam is Korean for [...]

It’s funny how I stumble upon new Korean food blogs. Do a search on Google, and you don’t find many at the top of the search. I found these blogs through another blog about women in Asia. Chocopie is an English language blog written by a Korean woman living in Seoul. She hasn’t posted in [...]

It’s no secret that I think Korea is a playground for those of us who treat eating like an extreme sport–for those of us who agree with Tony Bourdain that our bodies are not temples, they’re amusement parks. A lot of these foods spawn from necessity, belief in medicinal properties, or, in my opinion, complete [...]