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Umma's Table Reviews

Umma's Table by Yeon-Sik Hong

Umma's Table

Yeon-Sik Hong

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1 review

Category: Graphic Novels
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Publication date: 21 Apr 2020
ISBN: 9781770463868

"First published in 2015 by Woorinabi Publishing Co., Korea"--Copyright page.

4 stars out of 5
Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke
31 Mar 2020

"South Korea’s reputation for comic art continues to blossom in this feline tale of feasts and filial duty"

The parts of this book that I enjoyed most were those taken up with Madang’s memories of these dishes, and his often hapless attempts to reproduce them with perfect accuracy: the dumplings, the kimchi, the soy bean paste bibimbap. This is a book about all the ways in which food, a proxy for love, can bring people closer; eating together, its author suggests, can make even the most complicated of families healthier and stronger and happier. In these strange times, such a message could hardly be more resonant. I put it down and went immediately to a cupboard, hard on the trail of a bottle of fish sauce.

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