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The hotly anticipated debut cookbook from star chef Esther Choi: 100 recipes that teach the secret to cooking like a Korean grandmother, showing how to add extraordinary flavor to everything you touchWe all know cooks whose fingertips seem to infuse everything they touch with incredible flavor. In Korean, that magic touch is called sohn-mat, or "hand taste"-and it's not something you have to be born with. Esther Choi picked hers up from her halmoni, or grandmother, who used her hands for everything from smearing cabbage with pepper paste to make kimchi to crumbling tofu for mandu (dumpling) filling and tossing vibrantly flavored noodles for japchae.Hand taste starts with seasoning but ultimately describes a way of cooking rooted in heritage, intuition, and heart. Here, Choi offers delicious entry points to Korean cuisine, with foundational techniques alongside quick weeknight recipes and show-stopping traditional spreads. Hand Taste is as instructive as it is expressive, with recipes like Kalbi Jjim, Japchae, Kimchi Mac & Beef, Halmoni's Jeon, and Korean Fried Chicken Wings. There's something for everyone-whether you know Choi from her beloved restaurants Mokbar and Ms. Yoo, her presence on Food Network, or her infectious online personality. So much more than a guide to mastering Korean cooking, Hand Taste teaches you to trust your gut and cook with curiosity and joy.

Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, the history of science, media studies, and philosophy. Together these pieces probe architecture's relationship to liminal zones and immaterial systems, reframing instability and mutability as enduring qualities that form architecture's motive core-a perspectival shift that carries with it new possibilities for architectural agency and resistance. The pieces in this book range from contrarian investigations of the opportunities inherent in scarcity, bureaucracy, and banality to projections of architecture as a mediatic practice or automated process. Case studies that propose new architectural strategies are placed alongside provocative historical examples to tease out the implications of architecture's indeterminacy in agonistic ways.In each contribution, a particular facet of the discipline's apparent obsolescence or endurance becomes a way to critically evaluate the ethical and entrepreneurial dimensions of architectural practice and theory. Taken together, the pieces in this volume reinterpret architecture's "all-over-ness" as an untapped disciplinary property rather than a temporary or terminal condition.