Korean Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes to Make at Home (Essential Asian Kitchen Series) [Hardcover]

Soon Young Chung (Author)

Book Description

Series: Essential Asian Kitchen Series | Publication Date: January 2, 2001

Korean cooking is one of the healthiest in the world. Now, with Korean Home Cooking, discover how easy it is to create the delights of Korean cuisine at home. A variety of spicy and warming dishes graces the pages of this delicious new cookbook, including traditional favorites like classical Korean mung bean pancakes, traditional rice with Korean vegetables (Bibimbup), and cucumber kimchi with fillings, as well as modern dishes such as pan-fried fish with chili sauce and barbecued beef with vegetable skewers. All the recipes in this beautiful cookbook are accompanied by step-by-step instructions and gorgeous full-color photography.
The perfect guide for cooks of all levels and ability, Korean Home Cooking has everything readers need to bring the celebrated meals of this unique Asian country into their own homes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Periplus Editions (January 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0794650066
• ISBN-13: 978-0794650063
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 9.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,146,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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110 of 111 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Korean Cookbook I own...and I own plenty!, March 5, 2003

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juliannamama "webshopoholic" (Northeast, United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Korean Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes to Make at Home (Essential Asian Kitchen Series) (Hardcover)

Growing up in Korea for 17 years got me cooking Korean Food at least once a week. I even make my own Kimchee. Hard things for me to cook Korean Food are not knowing English names for certain ingredients and following Korean Cookbook Recipes that usually don't represent the taste I grew up with. Craving the food, and not living near Korean community got me to purchase many Korean Cookbooks both in Korean and English. One of the book I own that has high review in amazon.com, "Growing Up in a Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook", doesn't even compare to this book. This book has great Korean Food history, and correct representation of Korean words..which lacks in "Growing..". Being a proud Korean, I was a little frustrated with "Growin.." book. "Korean Home Cooking" has beautiful pictures of food, great instructions..and for a change, recipe works! (I usually ommit some minor ingredients that I can't find in regular grocery stores..still successful) I am proud to own and recommend this book to my friends and family. I thought this book deserved my 1st review on amazon.com. I just wish the book was much thicker with many more great Korean food!!!!!

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Korean cooking book out there..., February 24, 2004

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108Dragons "raiden" (San Marcos TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Korean Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes to Make at Home (Essential Asian Kitchen Series) (Hardcover)

There seems to be two kinds of books out there when it comes to Korean Cuisine - those written by westerners that have no clue and get the ingredients wrong and those written by natives that use too many obscure ingredients and use strange recipes (like the book that has you boil apples to get the sweetness for bulgoki). This book is great because it is neither. It explains the basics in layperson's terms and has easy to follow recipes and good photos of the finished product. Finally - authentic korean cooking like mom used to make!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I use the recipes all the time, May 17, 2005

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Bebina40 "bebina40" (san francisco, ca United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Korean Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes to Make at Home (Essential Asian Kitchen Series) (Hardcover)

I'm not Korean, but I love spicy food, and I've visited Korea 20 years ago. This book is the best. I have purchased about 5 Korean cookbooks from Amazon, and this book runs circles around them. If you want to cook Korean at home, buy this book. If you need Korean ingredients and you don't have a store nearby, there are a few websites you can order from: kgrocer.com, ikoreaplaza.com and koamart.com. Try it, it is so delicious!