Korean American : a Cookbook

Most of the cookbooks I read are Chinese, so this one on traditional Korean dishes and Korean-American inventions (take Southern food and add gochujang...) is a nice change and educational with its background descriptions for each dish putting it in context how it fits in with traditional Korean culture or how it came about in a cultural collisions. The recipes are shorter than I'm used to, typically taking less than the page, and there are no long dissertations on preparing the kitchen, seasoning the wok (I have four books with wok in the title), comprehensive listing of ingredients, but on the part I care about, personal stories, the author goes into emotional and introspective depth with his experience as a child of Asian immigrants in the South, the insecurities of young adulthood, and his relationship and inspiration from his mother (who he mostly calls by name, which is weird to me, but I somewhat feel like an analyst reading this book). Many of the dishes he learned from his mom in detail for the development of this book so it reads like an Ode to Mom and hey, Mother's Day is coming up soon, consider gifting this!