Photography by Chia Chong
Styling by Libbie Summers
Even in the heat of a Southern summer, life gets sweeter and somehow happier when the oven turns on and the first cup of flour is measured out.
Behind the scenes with our week of fish inspiration
This recipe can be made in the time it takes quality honey to ease its way from the jar. It will be eaten twice as fast.
Mokpo in South Jeolla province is our educator and hostess’ first home. When Ho Shim Shaw picks up her knife to accomplish the tour de force of preparing a Korean feast, she thinks only of cutting “perfectly” for her guests. The varicolored and multi-textured meal and her stories open eyes (and mouths) to the some of the tastes, sounds and sites of a distant land that is somehow much more familiar than imagined.