Thank you Santa for this great gift!

I was born and raised in Canada but my parents are from Korea. As a kid, I didn't appreciate home cooked Korean food (obviously my desire for pizza and chicken fingers was much larger). It wasn't until I was moved out of home that I really started to miss Korean food.

When I asked my mom to teach me how to cook Korean food, she would just brush it off saying that I didn't know how to cook (she forgets that my sister is the one who doesn't cook, and that I was living on my own and cooking for myself since I was 16). Since then my mom has been diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, and though she has the desire to cook she has lost her palate and energy to cook homemade Korean meals. I would ask my dad, but he passed away when I was 13 (due to cancer). Whenever I crave Korean food, I always go out to restaurants to eat it.

... Now I don't have to.

Thank you, Santa, for giving me the opportunity to cook the food of my people. One day I hope that I can cook a meal to my mother's standards and share it with her. Nothing will ever beat my mom's cooking but I'm happy to be given this cookbook and hope that I can one day cook just as good as my mother.