Listen. When you live in a foreign country, sometimes things are different. Like apples, for example. Making apple pie in Seoul is hard. It’s hard not just because you may have to go to a special market to find a pie pan, or because you …
I wrote last week about namul, green vegetables and herbs that are traditionally gathered from the wild in Korea. One of my absolute favorite bom namul — or spring greens — is dallae, Korean wild chives, a kind of tiny wild onion that is native …
Alright. I’m ahead of myself with this one. Berry season isn’t for another couple of months, but I was able to find some greenhouse-grown domestic raspberries and blueberries. It was Sunday; it was rainy. A nice big cup of coffee, a book and some homemade …
Spring is finally here, which means not only a wealth of baby vegetables but the arrival of spring namul, or greens and herbs. The stuff namul is made of was traditionally gathered in the wild on the mountainsides in Korea as the weather began to …
Today is B’s last day before going back to work full time, and he’s not exactly thrilled about it. He’s still suffering from jet lag, as am I, but the effects are different for each of us. Mine has me up at 6am, whether I …