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EVERYDAY KOREAN: Fresh, Modern Recipes for Home Cooks is the latest offering from bestselling food memoirist and cookbook author, Kim Sunée. One of the most healthy, flavorful, and versatile cuisines, Korean cooking has begun to explode on the global food scene and yet it is often misunderstood. Sunée and her co-author nutritionist Dr. Seung Hee Lee-Kwan enthusiastically seek to demystify it while celebrating both its time-honored dishes and putting their own modern twist on traditional recipes.
In EVERYDAY KOREAN, Sunée and Lee-Kwan present novel combinations of sour, spicy, and sweet flavors, showing just how much Korean cuisine has to offer to a variety of eaters, and dispelling the impression of needing a particular palate for Korean food. They introduce to readers the backbone of all Korean cuisine, jang—a flavor not found anywhere else in the world. They also show how the classic rice bowl, bibimbap can be easily adapted to satisfy the vegan, vegetarian and meat-lovers among us. They provide thoughtful instructions and backgrounds for plates dating back hundreds of years, including Royal Court Cuisine from Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. And in the section “East Meets West” they’ll serve up fusion-inspired dishes like Grilled Shrimp Po-Boy with Kimchi and Bulgogi Beef Sliders. Every step of the way, Sunée and Lee-Kwan will demonstrate how easy it is to bring bold Korean flavors into everyday kitchens.
Kim Sunée is the acclaimed author of the bestselling memoir TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home. Born in South Korea, adopted and raised in New Orleans, and then a resident of Paris for a decade, she has experienced many sides and cultures of food, which she chose to present in her first cookbook, A Mouthful of Stars: A Constellation of Favorite Recipes from My World Travels (Andrews McMeel, 2014). She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, ELLE, and Glamour, and her writing has appeared in Food and Wine, The Oxford American, and Asian Writing and Poetry. Sunée was the founding food editor of Cottage Living and served as a food editor for Southern Living. She teaches creative writing and cooking classes. Read more about her at kimsunee.com and follow her on Instagram@kimsunee.
Dr. Seung Hee Lee-Kwan was born and raised in South Korea. She studied Korean Royal Court cuisine at the renowned Taste of Korea Research Institute and is a licensed dietician. She garnered her Ph.D in Human Nutrition from Johns Hopkins University. She currently works for the Centers for Disease Control Prevention in Atlanta as an epidemiologist. She received the Abell Award in Urban Policy for her work directing the Baltimore Healthy Carryouts, a healthy restaurant program implemented in low-income neighborhoods in Baltimore. Lee-Kwan teaches Korean cooking classes on weekends, and you can follow her creations on Instagram@Koreanfusion.