A Korean Mothers Cooking Notes (Hardcover)- Revised Edition

The revised edition of A Korean Mother's Cooking Notes is being published. A Korean Mother's Cooking Notes has been one of the representative Korean cookbooks, and has continually been enjoyed by all the generations of Koreans since its original publication in 1997. The revised edition selectively chooses 126 well-being Korean recipes and introduces them with step-by-step instructions along with full-color pictures.
The revised edition is organized into 9 basic categories: rice and porridge, soup and stew, seasoned vegetable dishes, food boiled in sauce, broiled food, kimchi, picked food, popular dishes and desserts. The book also contains two types of recipes: authentic recipes such as kimchi or vegetables mixed with rice (bibim bap) for the traditionalists and quick and easy recipes such as rice with trumpet royal mushrooms (saesong-i beoseot bap) for those who are in a hurry yet still want a home-cooked meal. There are also detailed explanations of special holidays and occasions like Korean Thanksgiving Day and birthdays, along with suggested menus for the settings. Finally, the revised edition also contains a simple and organized explanation of the commonly used ingredients.
Chang, Sun-young always explains her recipes step by step as if she is besides you, and gives the specific measures of the ingredients in cups and spoons all the time so that no matter who makes the dish, it will result in the same taste as the dish that she herself makes. Even novice cooks can prepare authentic Korean food, which has five thousand years of tradition, and have it taste "just like mom used to make."
She is not originally trained as a professional chef; rather, she is a housewife who loves her family very much. This book originated as a collection of notes and recipes to help her two daughters-in-law who lived away from her. She shares her years of experience and wisdom, ranging from how to clean the ingredients to how to preserve the foods to how to efficiently prepare the foods.
A Korean Mother's Cooking Notes provides invaluable guidance to Korean home cooking and includes the secrets and wisdom from 40 years of experience of a devoted Korean housewife. This revised edition is a labor of love from the entire family. The older daughter-in-law helped with the preparation and presentation of the dishes for the pictures, and the younger daughter-in-law translated the book.
Even in the US, this book is consistently requested among the 2nd and 3rd generation Korean Americans. We hope that this book will be a guide to the Korean culinary arts for those who are genuinely interested in Korean culture and cooking.

1993년에 나온『며느리에게 주는 요리책』과 97년에 나온 같은 이름의 영문판을 바탕으로, 요리 종류와 사진을 대폭 보완한 『A Korean Mother's Cooking Notes』(『며느리에게 주는 요리책』의 영어판)가 개정판으로 새롭게 출간되었다.
특히 이번 책은 큰 며느리 최정문이 푸드 스타일리스트로 참여하고, 둘째 며느리 조수진이 영문 번역을 맡아 ‘며느리들과 함께 만든 요리책’이 되었다는 점에서 더욱 뜻 깊다. 장선용의 요리책은 국내에서 20만부 이상 팔렸고, 영문판은 아마존 닷컴에서 별 5개를 받아 ‘가장 좋은 한국 요리책’으로 꼽힐 만큼 미국 시장에서 인기가 높다.
양장본으로 다시 엮은 이번 개정판에는 최근 건강식으로 각광받고 있는 한국 요리 126가지를 선별하여 생생한 사진들과 함께 소개하고 있다. 국과 찌개, 조림과 찜, 나물, 손님 접대에 좋은 음식, 후식 등 총 9개의 부분으로 나누어 김치, 비빔밥과 같은 한국의 대표적인 웰빙 음식뿐만 아니라 새송이버섯밥 등 시간에 쫓기는 젊은 세대들도 간단하게 만들 수 있는 음식까지 주요 한국 요리를 총 망라하고 있다. 또한 외국인 손님들을 위한 코스식 상차림, 추석이나 생일 등 특별한 날의 상차림에 대한 설명과 함께 한국 요리에 많이 쓰이는 재료 및 양념장도 일목요연하게 정리했다.