![]() ![]() Traditionally, even a basic family dinner consists of 8 to 10 different dishes: soup or stew, rice, kimchi, often a stir-fry of protein and vegetables and at least three banchan, savory side dishes like spicy cucumber salad or steamed eggplant. Other arts that she practices more casually include cutting and arranging food appetizingly, and composing harmonious meals of stunning variety. (Most cooks simply buy the finished products, but the flavors of the homemade ones are extraordinary.) The recipe, which is in the book, calls for an electric blanket, more than a gallon of salt and hay it takes almost a year to complete. There, she practices the slow and ancient art of fermenting, making gochujang (chile paste) and doenjang (soybean paste), an umami-rich flavor element pervasive in Korean cooking, similar to Japanese miso. She shares the apartment with David Seguin, a web developer at The New York Times, whom she married in 2009. Now, she lives and shoots her videos in a compact apartment perched above the frenzy of Times Square, where the view from her kitchen window includes a giant hand pointing down to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. To her, building a community online was a natural extension of her life. Later, she worked as a counselor for (and cooked for) Korean-American families who had suffered through domestic abuse. In the Midwest, she led expeditions in search of Japanese or Chinese restaurants (at that time, she said, she did not know of any Korean restaurants in the entire region). Kim first came to the United States in 1992 with her husband, an academic who emigrated to take a teaching job in Columbia, Mo., and she has since been at the center of every group of Korean expatriates she has been part of. Like uncountable generations of Korean women, she learned from her mother, aunts and grandmothers how to not only cook but also pickle, smoke, dry and ferment. ![]() Kim was raised in Yeosu, a port city near the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, where her family was in the seafood business. ![]()
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