A Korean Mother's Cooking Notes

By Chang Sun-Young

Book Overview

A wonderful collection of recipes by Chang Sun-Young, whose sons and daughters-in-law begged that she write these down. The family project soon had enough recipes to become a book, and Mrs. Chang... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8973002996
• ISBN13: 9788973002993
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Ewha Womans University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Recipe & easy to follow!

Since I purchased this book, I have been continued refering back to it and cooked following the recipe. I have my menu planned for a month but this book made me changed my menu this month. Since the meat I purchase basically a standard meat, and most of the condiments are all easy to find in the grocery store (if you dont have some of them, no worries, the book also jot down ALTERNATIVES we can use to make them--i.e. red pepper paste). I happened to have most condiments available in my pantry. So I tried several recipes out of the book and have been really pleased with the result. I never imagine I can cook bulgogi/kalbi sauce from the scratch (I usually buy the pre-mix sauce). I skimmed through the recipes and most of it are not too intimidating or hard to follow. On addition to those great recipes, I love reading the story/introduction of the book. Must have!!

Great for Korean-Americans

My aunt gave me this book and it was just wonderful! The Korean edition was a best seller in Korea, so popular it was translated into english. It has the most common Korean dishes. It's taken the mystique out of some foods that I thought I wouldn't be able to make. For Kyopos it's a good way to learn some of the culture and what goes into the foods. In easy english w/photos. Some errors but overall understandable and easy to follow. It's the best Korean cookbook I've come across in english.

Excellent

I am an American who has been living in Korea for the past 4 years. I use this book for my Korean cooking and I get many compliments. It is easy to follow, though there are some minor errors (some ingredients are left out in the preparation instructions) but it's not hard to figure out. It's a great book if you want to impress your Korean neighbors, though having a little cultural background helps. I highly recommend this book for those who enjoy Korean food but aren't sure how to cook it.

good book

i've made some stuff from this book, and it's really easy to use, and the meals come out great

An insight to Korean culture from a unique point of view

I first pick this up so that I could pick up a new skill, but what I got out of it was far more than recipes. The book gave insight not only to Korean culture, but some unique perspective from a mother-in-law point of view. I highly recommend this to any daughter in laws and son in laws for an opportunity to see the other side of the coin.