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Amuse-bouche: Hanshik U?
1Sep2009 Filed under: amuse-bouche Author: fatmanseoulApparently there’s a chef shortage . . . from the Korea Times:
A lack of chefs specializing in hansik, or Korean food, has sparked constant debate about establishing an integrated cooking program in efforts to globalize the cuisine. Now, the Korean government is taking action to address the issue.
Several local universities and hotels will start a chef-education program from next month. Under the project ― by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ― students were selected last month, and participants will instruct them in advanced hansik cooking as well as restaurant operation, foreign culture and languages.
The project aims to train top hansik chefs to prepare high-quality dishes for foreigners, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, we have a hard time believing that you’ll actually find Kwon Sang-u as your barrista, despite what this Korea Herald article on the Korean Wave cash-in among restaurants shows.
pic from Korea Herald
Meanwhile, debate is heating up again on the interwebs (well, on the Marmot’s Hole and Zen Kimchi) about Korean dog meat consumption, thanks to a post on Ask a Korean. Debate the veracity of the article and dog meat eatin’ in general amongst yourselves. Any particular favorite places to pick up a peck of pooch? Or are we calling PETA? At any rate, enjoy the annual summer debate over Korea’s most controversial protein source.
- Tags: dog meat, 개고기, 권상우, globalization, hanshik, 한식, Kwon Sang-u
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Tamar
September 1st, 2009 at 4:31 pm
This dog meat debate comes up every summer. I did a blog post about it back on July 14.
Have you noticed that most of the anti-dog meat protesters are self-righteous “liberal” white people?! Here’s what I said in the last paragraph of my blog on the issue. “…Despite my obvious disdain of dog meat, I find it pretty arrogant for Westerners to go into Asian countries and tell them what to eat.”
fatmanseoul
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
We know this is an annual summer event, but why not enjoy the dog days of summer for what they are?
Our only response to your comment is that there are in fact lots of Koreans who oppose eating dog, and it’s unfair to dismiss all opposition as arrogant foreigners. It also doesn’t address their arguments . . . just because an argument is made by people you don’t like doesn’t make it invalid.
Tamar
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 am
You’re right. There are a lot of Koreans who don’t eat it and have no desire to ever eat it, especially among the younger generation. If that trend holds true, dog meat will become less common (because of a dwindling market for it) until it fades away. To me it’s a Korean issue and foreigners should but out.
fatmanseoul
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Again, we’ll have to take slightly different positions on the matter . . . we don’t see why citizenship should make somebody inelligable to hold an opinion or voice it. Sure, we’d love for the debate to be open, honest, and polite on all sides, but why shouldn’t foreigners be allowed to stake out a position one way or another?