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…

Thanksgiving dinner has an oven problem. The turkey owns it for hours, the rolls wait their turn, and every side dish that wants a hot oven is quietly bargaining for the rack. Goguma mattang (…

The pumpkin spice latte has one fact that tends to surprise people who order it every October: the original version had no pumpkin in it. Starbucks began selling the drink in fall 2003, and it w…