Western folklore keeps its monster defenses in the spice rack: garlic for vampires, salt for the stubbornly haunted, maybe a bowl of milk on the porch if you are being polite. Korea has its own …

Picture the weekend before Thanksgiving, the one where somebody's kitchen turns into a production line. There is a pile of vegetables, a loud radio, three relatives arguing about the right w…

Winter in a North American city comes with its own small economy of warm things: the hot pretzel cart, the roasted nuts, the paper cup that exists mainly to give your fingers something to hold. …

Unscrew a jar of orange marmalade and you get orange. Unscrew a jar of honey lemon syrup and you get lemon, maybe with a faint whiff of cough drop. Unscrew a jar of yuja cheong, the Korean citru…

Open a Costco freezer door this fall and you may find Bibigo's Korean BBQ-style pizza sitting in a two-pack, item number 2068132. One price tracker had it at more than 500 US warehouses in e…

A North American Christmas table is usually built around a roast, and everything else is arranged around it. In Korea there is no specific Christmas dish, and turkey and stuffing are hard to fin…