Korean food has been trendy in the US for years now. I'm surprised the fad hasn't faded yet. What I do see happening, though, is the incorporation of the Korean flavor profile into American fusion dishes. Sure, there are still old-school channels like Maangchi around to offer traditional Korean recipes, but Korean food in the States will likely live on as some kind of Frankensteinian pastiche, mixed with other flavor profiles, with pockets of traditionalism holding the fort in places like Los Angeles and Annandale Koreatown. And there's nothing inherently wrong with any of that, fusion or traditional. As an old grad-school professor of mine once growled, "It's all syncretism."
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!
All comments are subject to approval before they are published, so they will not appear immediately. Comments should be civil, relevant, and substantive. Anonymous comments are not allowed and will be unceremoniously deleted. For more on my comments policy, please see this entry on my other blog.
AND A NEW RULE (per this post): comments critical of Trump's lying must include criticism of Biden's or Kamala's or some prominent leftie's lying on a one-for-one basis! Failure to be balanced means your comment will not be published.