{"id":374,"date":"2017-08-11T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2017-08-10T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:00:32","slug":"korean-table-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/11\/korean-table-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Korean Table book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been using\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3700417-the-korean-table\">The Korean Table<\/a><\/em>, a Korean cookbook by Taekyung Chung and Debra Samuels. This book is okay, but there are surely much much better Korean cookbooks out there. (Have you seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maangchi.com\/\">Maangchi&#8217;s website<\/a>?) Overall, the book is well laid out and has pretty pictures, but it substitutes ingredients too much.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To try to make the book more accessible, recipes use Western ingredients instead of harder-to-find Korean ingredients. I find this annoying and confusing. I&#8217;d prefer if recipes used Korean ingredients, and the book also provided a chart of Western substitutions to use at will. Depending on where you live and with access to the internet, anybody can get any of the required ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>They also\u00a0refer to Korean ingredients with long, confusing English phrases. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maangchi.com\/recipe\/gochujang\">gochujang<\/a> (fermented Korean red chili paste) is called &#8220;red pepper paste&#8221; in recipes. In retrospect, I know what they&#8217;re talking about, but when I first saw this, I started looking through the &#8220;Basics&#8221; section for a &#8220;red pepper paste&#8221; recipe. I think the authors can ask their readers to learn a few new words. After all, they are going to come up again and again in Korean cooking.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; not bad, but not great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been using\u00a0The Korean Table, a Korean cookbook by Taekyung Chung and Debra Samuels. This book is okay, but there are surely much much better Korean cookbooks out there. (Have you seen Maangchi&#8217;s website?) Overall, the book is well laid out and has pretty pictures, but it substitutes ingredients too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}