The
Korean Vegan Cookbok
Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen.
James Beard
Foundation Award
The New York Times
Best Cookbooks of 2021
The New York Times
Instant Bestseller
The New Yorker
Best Cookbooks of 2021
A one-of-a-kind cookbook that celebrates how deeply
food and family shape our identity.
The
Korean Vegan Cookbook
Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen.
A one-of-a-kind cookbook that celebrates how deeply food and family shape our identity.
James Beard
Foundation Award
The New York Times
Best Cookbooks of 2021
The New York Times
Instant Bestseller
The New Yorker
Best Cookbooks of 2021
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Meet Joanne.
The Korean Vegan.
Advocate for BLM, LGBTQ+, women’s rights, and democracy.
With over 5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Joanne Molinaro, a.k.a The Korean Vegan, has appeared on The Food Network, CBS Saturday Morning, ABC’s Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, PBS, and The Rich Roll Podcast. She’s been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and CNN; and her debut cookbook was selected as one of “The Best Cookbooks of 2021” by The New York Times and The New Yorker, among others.
“Joanne masterfully entwines food, culture, education and self-improvement with incredibly honest, vulnerable, heartfelt stories….May this extraordinary woman inspire you to think more deeply about your own story—and the indelible power inherent in sharing it.”
–Rich Roll
“Come for the veganized Korean recipes that will inspire you in the kitchen and delight your tastebuds (the Tteokbokki and Kkanpoong Tofu will change your life). Stay for Joanne’s poetic stories about family and culture that will move you to tears.”
–Nisha Vora
“Over the course of exactly 60 seconds, Molinaro somehow makes you want to laugh, cry, march in the streets and devour every damn thing on her plate.”
–The Washington Post
“Joanne masterfully entwines food, culture, education and self-improvement with incredibly honest, vulnerable, heartfelt stories….May this extraordinary woman inspire you to think more deeply about your own story—and the indelible power inherent in sharing it.”
–Rich Roll, host of The Rich Roll Podcast
“Come for the veganized Korean recipes that will inspire you in the kitchen and delight your tastebuds (the Tteokbokki and Kkanpoong Tofu will change your life). Stay for Joanne’s poetic stories about family and culture that will move you to tears.”
–Nisha Vora, creator of Rainbow Plant Life
Named ONE OF THE BEST NEW COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR By: The New York Times • The New Yorker • Epicurious • EATER • Stained Page • Infatuation • Spruce Eats • Publisher’s Weekly • Food52 • Toronto Star
In her debut cookbook, Joanne shares over 80 intoxicating, plant-based recipes and moving narrative snapshots of the food that shaped her family history. Recipes range from Joanne’s childhood staples, like Jjajangmyun, the rich black bean noodles she ate on birthdays to the humble Gamja Guk, a potato-and-leek soup her father makes. Others are a little more personal, like the Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake which is an ode to the two foods that saved her mother’s life.
An instant New York Times Bestseller, and winner of the James Beard Award for Vegetable-Focused Cooking in 2022, The Korean Vegan Cookbook is 336 pages of breathtaking dishes, and the intimate storytelling and stunning photography that Joanne has become known for on social media.
The
Korean Vegan
Cookbook
In her debut cookbook, Joanne shares over 80 intoxicating, plant-based recipes and moving narrative snapshots of the food that shaped her family history. Recipes range from Joanne’s childhood staples, like Jjajangmyun, the rich black bean noodles she ate on birthdays to the humble Gamja Guk, a potato-and-leek soup her father makes. Others are a little more personal, like the Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake which is an ode to the two foods that saved her mother’s life.
An instant New York Times Bestseller, and winner of the James Beard Award for Vegetable-Focused Cooking in 2022, The Korean Vegan Cookbook is 336 pages of breathtaking dishes, and the intimate storytelling and stunning photography that Joanne has become known for on social media.
