Opinion | Addicted to cheese, ramen, pizza? It’s not your fault – our bodies are hard-wired for it

“I would literally just eat a block of cheese with my hands,” she told the tabloid, adding that she fed her habit, in true addict style, sitting on her apartment floor alone in the dark. “It was the only thing that would make me feel somewhat whole.” Cheese contains a protein called casein that is … Read more

How Asia’s fermented foods, from kimchi to preserved pickles, show parallels between the region’s cuisines

Ha has travelled across the country, covering some 620,000 kilometres (385,000 miles) since 2014, meeting local people and recording the undocumented oral recipes of the communities she encounters. Dureup kimchi is made with Angelica tree shoots. Photo: SCMP She highlighted the vast array of kimchi varieties in Korea, emphasising their regional and seasonal diversity, telling … Read more

Research suggests up to three meals of kimchi per day may lower men’s obesity risk

WASHINGTON: According to research published in the open access journal BMJ Open, eating up to three servings of traditional Korean kimchi per day may lower men‘s overall risk of obesity, while radish kimchi is related with a lower incidence of belly bulge in both sexes.Kimchi is made by salting and fermenting vegetables with various flavourings … Read more

Kimchi Consumption Grows, Thanks to K-Content, Health Claims

washington —  South Korean kimchi exports hit a record high amid a global surge in the popularity of Korean culture, hitting 44,041 tons in 2023, a 7.1% increase from 42,544 tons exported in 2021. Kimchi, a traditional Korean dish made by fermenting cabbage or other vegetables, was exported to 92 countries from South Korea last … Read more

Korean kimchi makers turn to AI for quality control, as population falls and export demand rises thanks to popularity of Korean wave

By Ko Dong-hwan Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to guarantee the high quality of mass-produced kimchi for global consumers, according to a state-run kimchi laboratory in South Korea. This technological approach marks a departure from the traditional method of pickled cabbage making, which has historically relied on the human touch. The World Institute … Read more

He’s a Hindi-speaking Korean chef in India whose Instagram fusion-food videos have gone viral – Kim Jiyeol on how cuisine ‘brings people together’

But he’s not a full-time food influencer – rather, Kim is the official chef at the South Korean embassy in New Delhi, where he landed in 2019 after professional cooking stints across Europe and Australia. Kim’s chicken wing momos, inspired by the Nepalese dumpling. Photo: Kim Jiyeol Now the passionate cook’s home is India, a … Read more

Is kimchi vegetarian? It can be, but traditionally cooks prepare the spicy Korean preserved vegetable dish using fermented seafood

Is kimchi vegetarian? Not always. According to the 2022 iteration of the Codex Alimentarius international food standards, kimchi is vegetarian in that it’s simply “prepared with Chinese cabbage as a predominant ingredient and other vegetables which have been trimmed, cut, salted and seasoned before fermentation”. Sure enough – no mention of meat products here. Another … Read more