Review Growing Up In A Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook Translated By Hi Sooshin Hepinstall Formatted As Kindle

are too many Korean cookbooks out there that are written in English, Most of them aren't worth the paper they are printed on or the number of bytes it took to make them eBooks.
This one is an exception, It's clear, precise and it gives you great hints, I mean, would I have thought to take drained, blanched spinach that I had squeezed water out of in my hands and roll it in paper towels to squeeze even more water out of it No, But Hi Soo Shin Hepinstall did and she told me about it.
As a result, I can make Sigumch'i namul seasoned spinach that is as good as my wife's was.
I love this cookbook and it allows me to replicate dishes my wife made, I'm in the process of reviewing the Korean cookbooks I have and continuing to experiment with Korean food.
I keep coming back to this book because it is the best by far, Unlike other cookbooks it's precision and attention to detail makes it in my not so humble opinion the best.
There is no attempt to dumb down or 'Americanize' the recipes or instructions, If my Korean born wife Cholla Nam do girl were still alive this is the kind of cookbook she would have written or rather it is the kind of cookbook she would have directed me to write.


December, As I review the other Korean cookbooks I own I realize that this one is by far the best.
Thsi author is exceptionally addictive This would be a terrible first korean cookbook, but it makes a fabulous second cookbook.


Published in, it doesn't have shiny glossy photos of all the food, and the romanization is different than what you normally see, which can make things a bit tough to look up on the internet.
That said, all the additional text about growing up in korea was fascinating and I definitely like to look up any recipe I'm about to make in this book to see what she has to say about it as well.
amazing recipes, some are more involved than others, but lots of dishes just as good, ok almost as good as my mom's.
. jap chae a big hit, going to try the homemade dumplings soon I don't know that I will cook much out of this except maybe the kimchi recipes but I did enjoy all the stories and descriptions of what life was like back then for her family.
I wish that there were more stories actually, and fewer recipes, I also really wish there were better pictures, I first heard about the book from another book, The Art of Fermentation, So I decided to give this a try both because I love Korean food and also because I'm super interested in learning how to ferment food.


I loved this cookbook,   Not only was it a super interesting memoir, but it also has so many recipes that I want to try.
From whole meals to making your own soy sauce, this book has everything you could want to start making Korean food.
So far I've only made the kimchi, but it was amazing and I hope to make more recipes soon.
  I loved the insights to meal prepping and the details about her family, it added so much to the book.
It was fun to learn about Korean culture as well as food!

This is a book I need to own someday.
I gave it five on Goodreads,   Two things inspired me to pick up this book: my love for Korean dramas, and my recent change to a diet rich in fermented foods.
This cookbook satisfies both of those curiosities, although I doubt I will be able to make very many of these recipes.


The family stories and introduction to the culture and heritage of food in Korea were fascinating to me.
I love that she included so much about each food and when it might be eaten, It's part of the reason I read every single recipe, looking for those special notes,

Since I am neither Korean nor living in Korea, much of this food is inaccessible

to me.
It seems to be the type of cooking and living that is passed down from generation to generation and not easy to jump into.
For instance, keeping a pad for crocks for fermented food, Where in the world would I put something like this in or near my home I have no idea, but it seems to be a necessary part of creating so many of these sauces and foods.


I also would have enjoyed pictures of each food,

This is an excellent cookbook, though, The steamed rice recipes look doable and delicious, and her stepbystep instructions for making kimchi make it seem possible for me.
I'm just happy that so much of the culture was explained so clearly, It makes me appreciate the Korean dramas that much more, : Okay, so I go to this Korean restaurant for supper, It's home style cooking themed, I've never been before, however, I am a massive kim chi fan, When the food is served, a multiple array of pickles dishes were served with, which was like expansive and amazing variations on kim chi, as well as diversified into mushrooms and various other assorted vegetables and fungi.


This hooked me on Korean food, so I ordered a couple of cookbooks, Discovering Korean Cuisine edited by Allisa Park and Growing Up in a Korean Kitchen by Hi Soo Shin Hepinstall.


I am going to duplicate this review with both books, so bear with me,

I adore Discovering Korean Cuisine, I'm a big fan of excellent visuals with good clean easytofigure out recipes, And if you are into kim chi, this gives you a number of recipes to work with for kim chi and various other pickles and side dishes.
But there's definitely more than just kim chi, there are numerous other great traditional recipes and great pics of.
Korean dishes are lovely in that all the food can be added to a dish, but in distinctly separate and equally spaced portions that are visually appealing.
Take a gander at Google Images of Korean Food: sitelink google. ca/searchclientsa

Growing Up In a Korean Kitchen
This book has less visuals and the pics shown are black and white OR black and white with a hint of orange added.
But, no matter, this is still an excellent book, The amount of description that goes into the recipes, not overdone, but really letting you know that the author is in the know.


If I had to choose I couldn't, I'd say get both!

She is writing for a nonKorean readership, yet the recipes were alien and needs special ingredients to a T.
I live where these things would be available,and yet I still didn't want to bother, Would you want to buy seven ingredients/spices/sauces just to make one dish Do you really want to make your own soy sauce Or seven variants No.
I couldn't find one recipe I even wanted to bother with, If she was going for a memoirhistorical cooking book this would work, As a standard tool in your repetoire No, I like the country of the South Korea and althought i do not like the asian food,i would like taste korean food.
Part memoir and part cookbook, GROWING UP IN A KOREAN KITCHEN is one woman's cultural and culinary story, weaving childhood reminiscences with lovingly gathered recipes.
With descriptions of the traditional Korean kitchen, preparations for special feast days, and the rituals of everyday family meals, author Hi Soo Shin Hepinstall draws an engaging portrait of a seldom glimpsed way of life.
Easytofollow recipes, largely handed down through oral tradition, cover the wide range of main and side dishes, from the sumptuous elegance of "royal cuisine" to simpler countryside cooking.
Korean cuisine has emerged as one of the most exciting and robust tastes of Asia, with great variety and some of the world's most sophisticated techniques for pickling and cooking with garlic and hot pepper.
Cooks of all levels, as well as armchair travelers, will welcome this book to their collection, Includes overauthentic recipes, a glossary, and a list of resources for finding uniquely Korean ingredients and utensils.
Illustrated with the author's travel and family photos, depicting the cultural and culinary traditions of Korea, For a list of markets that carry Korean ingredients visit www, koreanfeast. com.