In The Fourth Trimester, we ask momsanddads: What meal nourished you after inviting your infant? This month, it’s a steaming bowl of miyeokguk from Bon Appétit deputy food editor Hana Asbrink.
Four hundred and fifty. That’s the number of successive days I consumed the verysame soup. Maybe it was more. I consumed it in the earlymorning. I consumed it in the night. I consumed it, hands cupped around the bowl, on the most freezing of winterseason days. And I consumed it, with sweat-beaded brows, on the most sweltering of summerseason ones. I neverever consumed it in a box or with a fox, however nearly constantly, I consumed it still in pajamas. Doesn’t that count for something?
Miyeokguk, or Korean seaweed (miyeok) soup (guk), holds fantastic significance in Korean culture. Legend has it whales and dolphins consume lots of seaweed after providing birth. Koreans typically consume miyeokguk for numerous m