Jaehyeon Jeong and Joong-Hwan Oh, (eds). Communicating Food in Korea. Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield. Lanham, Maryland. 2021. 267 pp. … More
Category: korea
You know kimchi but how about kimjang?
Sangyoub Park and Sunyoung Cheong At the beginning of the new year, a variety of news outlets and food-related venues … More
Review: Re-Orienting Cuisine
Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 … More
Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference … More
Shake Shack Burger Fever in Korea
Sangyoub Park Washburn University The popular American burger chain Shake Shack just opened its first Korean store on July 22, … More
Curry’s Great Transnational Journey from India to Japan and North Korea
Guest contributor: Markus Bell, Australian National University I hadn’t been in Japan more than a few weeks before I was … More
Eating Alone? Friends Are One Click Away
Sangyoub Park Sociologist Washburn University Are you getting tired of “eating alone”? Now you have a solution. Just click away. … More
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