bbKorean dishes, some traditional and some reimagined, from the home cook and storyteller behind thekoreanvegan on TikTok.bbr b pThe single most frequent question Joanne Lee Molinaro gets asked is How can you be vegan iandi Korean Korean cooking is, after all, synonymous with fish sauce and barbecue. And although grilled meat is indeed prevalent in some Korean food, the ingredients that filled out the bapsangs of Joanne's childhood--doenjang fermented soybean paste, gochujang chili sauce, dashima seaweed, and more--are fully plant-based, unbelievably flavorful, and totally Korean. pIn her debut cookbook, Joanne shares recipes and narrative snapshots of the food that shaped her family history. Some of the recipes come straight from her childhood Jjajangmyun, the rich Korean-Chinese black bean noodles she ate on birthdays, or the humble Gamja Guk, a potato-and-leek soup her father makes. Some pay homage Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake is an ode to the two foods that saved her mother's life,