MAANGCHI ("Hammer" in Korean) was born and raised in South Korea, where she learned the fundamentals of home cooking from her relatives. A former counselor for victims of domestic violence and movie extra, she is the founder-owner of maangchi.com, the top online destination for Korean cooking. She also has her own YouTube channel. She lives in New York City.
Martha Rose Shulman writes the popular recipe feature entitled “Recipes for Health” for the
New York Times Food section and is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five cookbooks, including
The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking,The Very Best of Recipes for Health, Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World’s Healthiest Cuisine (named one of the six best vegetarian cookbooks of the last twenty-five years by
Cooking Light),
Mediterranean Light, Provençal Light, and
Entertaining Light. Her food combines pleasure and health, drawing largely from the cuisines of the Mediterranean, inherently healthy cuisines with big flavors.
Martha also works as a writing collaborator with chefs. She has coauthored two James Beard Award–winning cookbooks,
The Secrets of Baking with pastry chef Sherry Yard and
The Art of French Pastry with Jacquy Pfeiffer. She has also coauthored books with Wolfgang Puck, Dean Ornish, Mark Peel, Pati Jinich, and the Culinary Institute of America.
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