How did you come to write this book?
I was born in 1984 in a city called Gumi, but grew up in Seoul. Until I moved to the UK in 2006, to work for The Ledbury [a London restaurant], I’d never known any other culture. Back then, young cooks didn’t want to work in a Korean restaurant — they wanted to learn about French or Italian food because that was fine dining. That was true for me,
