Cook Korean! A Comic Book With Recipes

"Korean cookbooks are everywhere right now, but this one’s different. Author Robin Ha is an artist and graphic novelist, and every page features a variety of ingredients having a rollicking, boisterous party on the page. There’s a smiling daikon, a winking squid and even bland tofu that seems to be enjoying itself. Though each recipe relies on more or less the usual suspects — soy, sesame oil, chili paste, scallions, ginger — each has a distinct character, whether it’s japchae, soy spinach and bean sprout salad, pajeon or galbi. Ha’s protagonist (or alter ego) is a smiling young cook in traditional Korean silk formalwear with a ribbon in her hair. She’s a whiz with a cleaver — and she has excellent handwriting."