Quick and Easy Korean Cooking for Everyone

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Summary: basic starting point, but...
Review: ...the recipes just don't taste quite right to this Korean-American. Some are downright weird (like boiling apples for bulgogi marinade). Plus, the recipe selection seems random--I had never heard of lots of the dishes in here. I refer to this to get a sense of the basic ingredients for a recipe, but I end up changing the portions or adding other ingredients. However, the color step-by-step photos are helpful.

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Summary: recommended by friends
Review: my best friend is a fabulous cook and in the past couple of years has been perfecting her korean cooking skills (her boyfriend is mostly korean). She recently introduced me to a korean restaurant that i fell in love with. she recommended this cookbook to me- because she and her boyfriend use recipes out of it on a weekly basis. the ingredients are easy to since there's a korean district in my city.

this book's layout is similar to the wei-chuan series and noh chin-hwa' book practical korean cooking. they all have gorgeous photos of all the recipes and photos of instructions. i also liked at the end of this book it had cooking tips, measurment conversions, cooking methods, and korean table etiquitte.

i love the tofu casserole with miso, and the boiled potatos with beef- well i leave the beef out. they're easy to prepare and i like the fact that it has tip's scattered about the different recipes- for example preparing live clams for cooking by soaking in salt water. I already knew to do this but it was a helpful reminder.

fabulous book- even if you don't intend to actually cook anything!

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Summary: Great for the beginner!
Review: Step-by-step directions for some of the most common components of Korean cuisine. Color photographs make the techniques easy to understand. Most recipe ingredients can be found at any large American supermarket. I hardly ever cook, and I wouldn't mind cooking these dishes to serve to my Korean mother-in-law!

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Summary: Excellent Book for the Korean Cooking Newcomer
Review: While I was in College friends introduced me to Korean food, and I have been hooked ever since. As a non-Asian, I had never been exposed to this type of food growing up and knew little about the ingredients. This books is great! It gives clear color pictures (instead of b/w drawings) of the individual ingredients needed, concise measurements and step-by-step directions. I have been able to locate all needed ingredients at my local asian food store and have been much surprised that things have actually worked out and tasted good. I highly recommend this book for the beginner!!