Topic: Korean Food and Cooking

Kimchi soup

And one cook's list for an essential Asian pantry.

10 weirdest global fast foods

In the US, fast food can get pretty predictable: Burgers, fries, chicken, and a taco or a fish sandwich, if you’re feeling adventurous. Leave it to our international brethren to show us how to loosen up and live a little. Take a look at ten wacky fast food items from around the world.

Top Picks: Korean food, hipster farmsteads, self-appointed superheroes, and more

A culinary tour of South Korea on PBS, farming skills for city dwellers, a documentary on caped vigilantes, and more recommendations.

5 books about chucking it all for country living

This is the time of year – when it’s been freezing for two months and the city is covered with dirty snow that won’t melt for another six weeks – that I dream of trading it all in for a simpler life. You know, one complete with farm animals, caves for aging cheese, and a vegetable garden large enough to supply all of Manhattan with frisée. I'll never do it – I can't really live without groceries delivered to my apartment, mass transit, and access to Korean food at all hours – but I can at least read about it. Here are five amazing, hilarious, utterly charming books brought to you by people, crazier, more desperate, and with even less impulse control than I: the ones who actually did it.

Fiery homemade kimchi

Kimchi is a fermented Korean dish that is served at almost every Korean meal.

South Korea's kimchi crisis

Unusually wet weather in South Korea has sent the price of Chinese cabbage soaring, raising the possibility that Koreans might have to look elsewhere to get kimchi's basic ingredient.

The next big cookbook: Korean?

Japan: A booming 'Koreatown'

South Korea: Korean food goes global