In this month of May we looked at a book a little different from our habits. Here it will not be a question of a manga and to dissect the content. We know from experience that cooking is not easy, the same goes for reproducing Asian gastronomy. So we found the perfect book to replicate the recipes we see in Korean dramas. Cook Korean! – Korean cuisine in comicstrip e by Robin HA.
So, dear dramavores, the time has come to put into practice the recipes that make you salivate. And to impress your guests with this book that should help you!
Cook Korean! – Korean cuisine in comics
Original title: Cook Korean! – A Comic Book with Recipes
Alternative title: Cook Korean! – Korean cuisine in comics
Author: Robin HA
Gender: Cooking – Daily – Culture
Type: Global-manga
French publisher: Glénat
Origin: United States 2016
Release date: March 21, 2018
Number of volumes published: 1
Status: Finished
Price: 15€
Synopsis
You too: become a chef in Korean cuisine!
Recognized for its variety and quality, Korean cuisine is now a hit outside its country of origin and particularly in France. Kimchi, bulgogi, gimbap, bibimbap… You love these exotic specialties, but they seem impossible to make? Then Cook Korean is for you! As pleasant to flip through as it is easy to use, this unique hybrid between cookbook and graphic novel is an ideal introduction to Korean cuisine. No more granny cooking cards with tasteless lists and more or less appetizing photos: enjoy Robin Ha's recipes!
Between anecdotes in comics and illustrated step-by-step, the author describes in detail the steps and ingredients to follow for no less than 60 recipes. Simple, playful, tasty and precise, Cook Korean is ideal for both beginners and more experienced cooks who want to broaden their culinary horizons!
Spring: Glénat
Korean dishes
We often see in Korean dramas good dishes prepared with love by the mother. The classic Korean family appreciates being able to taste their cuisine to all in order to receive compliments or simply to spend a friendly moment with their hosts. Robin HA in this book does not just offer us recipes that make us salivate where we want to discover them. The author also offers us a piece of his daily life that makes us travel through humorous anecdotes.
But, also his research before finding the recipe within everyone's reach and pleasing to the greatest number of cooks. In addition, the young woman being herself an expatriate in the United States allows us to easily identify with her experience. Since we also France do not necessarily have the ingredients similar to the original recipes. The reader will therefore be surprised to appreciate also the comics slipped between two recipes that regularly punctuate this book.
Playful and original
Cook Korean! is a very rich book with more than a dozen chapters gathered in various themes such as kimchi, meats or cakes. If the book seems to be aimed at a certain audience with culinary knowledge; It can easily suit a beginner. Korean cuisine is healthy and balanced and has many virtues such as porridge that is often served to children, the elderly or the sick. Robin HA is not satisfied with a simple book on the Korean cuisine of his country but offers all his love and knowledge about this beautiful country with passion.
Thus, we have fun with his illustrations all in roundness, his effective explanations and his vegetables and other condiments that come to life in his pages. The author offers us a dive into his universe while remaining accessible, in the form of a very detailed guide and far from being boring! It is true that some recipes are sometimes similar but, nothing very embarrassing since it remains a recipe book above all. The choice of format is ideal, easily transportable with its soft cover in addition, the colors and design are without frills.
A beautiful discovery
A true guide to Korean cuisine in all its forms, this book brings a lot of freshness and humor while simplicity. Our expatriate concocts dishes that make us travel while having fun and we realize that the ingredients can be modified, according to our convenience. In the introduction, the author does not hesitate to admit that at the beginning cooking was not innate for her or a passion. On the contrary, it was when he left his native country that his desire to cook and later to share it with us, was felt.
And Robin HA did well because, reading his book we feel his passion on the one hand for cooking but also his love of the dishes he shares with us. The choice to highlight a heroine if not to stage herself is a good choice thus bringing us closer to South Korea. Dengki (the character presenting the recipes) is a little, a part of the memories and the past of the author. The young woman not only makes us cook but also live the daily meal of a person from the Land of the Morning Calm !
Cook Korean! is a book to be made accessible to all whether you are a simple novice or a more seasoned cook. Between culinary recipes and slices of life, the mixture operates and we only want to take the plunge!
