Traditional Korean Cooking
Soh Young Lee-SEgredo (2020)
Soh Young Lee-Segredo preparing traditional Korean food at Traditions Festival 2019.
This program’s inspirations were many thousands of years of traditional Korean cooking, along with the many years of watching my mother feed my family members. She is now eighty-two and has only slowed down a little. I have been demonstrating traditional Korean cooking for over 20 years.
Korea has a rich history of over 5,000 years. Well-known Korean dishes were created from King's place for Korean Kings. You may say that it is the same for all the kings around the world. However, in Korea, when the chief Kitchen staff starts to think about creating a new menu for the king, that person first thinks about nutritious value before anything. This tradition continues in the Korean community, a balanced diet to bring health.
Japchae is one of the most popular Korean Traditional dishes made with yam noodles (also known as glass noodles). It is mixed with spinach, carrot, onion, garlic, scallion, beef (marinated beef, optional for vegetarians), and topped with sliced thin Korean style omelet. Each ingredient is sauteed and noodle is boiled in water, drained, pan-fried then mixed with other ingredients with soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, and pepper. It is delicious, colorful, and nutritious!
New York is a mixed salad with people from a few hundred different cultures and traditions. The borough of Queens has the largest Korean community in the world according to many reliable resources. With much popular Korean drama and music performances, more and more people around the world are interested in learning the Korean language, as well as, Korean cooking. During the COVID19 Pandemic, people were asked to stay home to be safe and well. According to many keeping oneself healthy consisted of drinking warm water, washing hands for 20 seconds, have healthy food and have plenty of sleep. That is exactly what I did.
