All posts tagged "Korean Food"

  • President Obama will make Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, his primary adviser in dealing with Ebola-related issues.  (AP)
    “Obama enjoys Korean food”

    U.S. ambassador to Korea Sung Kim said U.S. President Barack Obama likes Korean food very much. Appearing on a morning show “Good Morning” of SBS, the envoy said, “President Obama enjoys Korean food so much that he...

    • Posted March 6, 2014
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  • Joe McPherson is now an influential figure in Korea’s food and restaurant scene, thanks to the success of his blog, ZenKimchi. (Courtesy of ZenKimchi)
    How Joe McPherson became Korean food “expert”

    Zenkimchi.com celebrates its 10th anniversary   By Kim Young-jin American blogger Joe McPherson started his site ZenKimchi a decade ago to keep relatives in the United States up to date on his life in Korea. He had...

    • Posted February 12, 2014
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  • Rice containing five different grains is wrapped with a big lotus leaf 
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    Serving lotus, from flower to seed

    Korean restaurant in Andong cooks up food that purifies, calms minds By Park Jin-hai “Lotus flowers blossom out of muddy water. In doing so, it purifies the water where it lives,” said Shin Yun-nam, restaurant owner of...

    • Posted October 29, 2013
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  • Park Jin, fifth from left, president of the Asia Future Institute, poses with Peter Tan, sixth from left, the Singapore ambassador to Korea in a “bibimbap” mixing event held at Gwanghwamun Square, Wednesday. They are joined by Park Mi-young, fourth from right, promotional ambassador for Korean Food; James Person, fifth from left, a researcher at the U.S. Wilson Center; Kim Chae-yeon, fourth from left, Hansik promotional ambassador; and Kim Choong-yong, third from left, former councilor of Jongno-gu, Seoul.  /  Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
    That’s a lot of Bibimbap!

    12,013 Servings Mixed for ‘Hansik Day’ in Korea   By Kim Ji-soo, Chung Hyun-chae   By preparing “bibimbap” to feed 12,013 people, former lawmaker Park Jin and officials of the food industry want to go one step...

    • Posted October 23, 2013
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    ‘Kimchi Chronicles’ Producer Touts Korean Food

    PHOTO NEWS Marja Vongerichten, the host of the 2011 PBS television series about Korean food and culture titled “Kimchi Chronicles,” speaks during an interview with Yonhap News Agency in Chicago on Oct.14, 2103. The Korean-American adoptee is...

    • Posted October 16, 2013
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    The ‘Royal’ Cuisine of Korea

    YongSuSan Restaurant Offers Experience of King’s Table LOS ANGELES – If you want to take important foreign guests to a Korean restaurant – to show them a little bit of Korean history, and perhaps even impress them...

    • Posted October 10, 2013
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  • Star chef Todd English poses at Gosang, a restaurant specializing in temple food, in Seoul on Sept. 4. / By freelance photographer Park Young-kyu
    ‘Don’t be ethnic in K-food globalization’

      Star chef Todd English sees high potential in temple food, citron tea By Park Si-soo It was a seemingly well-organized operation with no chance of failure. Under the code name “hansik (Korean food) globalization,” the government...

    • Posted October 2, 2013
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