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Food meta-blogg Foodbuzz came up with a new activity for the online foodworld: Their 24,24,24 project had twenty-four bloggers writing about 24 meals, in 24 hours to give a picture of food and eating across the globe. Zen Kimchi‘s Behind the Kitchen with Chef Hu-nam Kim of Star Chef was one of the chosen few, [...]
The latest issue of Gourmet magazine has a positively Proustian look at the summer noodle we all know and love: Naengmyeon!
Famed author and writer David Foster Wallace died this past Friday. While he was known for a vast body of works including Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Girl with Curious Hair, one of our favorite works here at FatManSeoul has always been his essay “Consider the Lobster” (영어 링크.) [...]
At the risk of losing any modicrum of respect we might have earned . . . Fatman was the featured guest on this week’s episode of the Seoul Podcast!
The Seoul Food Festival wrapped up this past weekend, and Fatman has the pics right here!
It was a poorly kept secret that Julia Child, the beloved French Chef, had been an OSS (Office of Strategic Services- a precursor to the CIA. No, not that CIA) spy during World War II. Too tall to join the military (188cm!), she served her country by working at OSS headquarters and in the field [...]
Ok, so there’s nothing to be seen of FatManSeoul but a mysterious figure in the shadows . . . but enjoy!
Most people were rightly impressed with the amazing amount of food that Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps manages to chow down every day. But how much more impressive would it be if his powers of eating were combined with those of world champion hot dog eater Takeru Kobayashi for the ultimate power breakfast battle? It [...]
The Seoul Food Festival (English Link. 한국어 여기) is still a relatively new festival (it started in 2007) so it’s still finding its feet. Fatman is a new blog, so we sympathize. We also sympathize with all the people who can’t seem to find their way around! With five venues and inconsistent translation, it’s important [...]
오늘 아리랑방송 TV에서 노기로 되어있는데 ‘Korea Now‘이란 쇼에 나올 거예요. 국내 아리랑TV에 새벽 6시, 아침 10시, 오후 8시와 11시에 나오기로 되어 있어요. 그리고 아까 링크들로 직저 들어가서 아리랑의 사이트로도 볼 수 있어요. 이 목록에 들어가면 8월 27일의 에피소드를 보시면 돼요. 이 에피소드가 “주한외국인 볼로거”에 대한 주제이예요. 사이트에 나온 설명은: 외국인이 한국에서 일하고 살면서 느끼는 한국을 [...]
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