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Exploring Korean & Japanese Cooking

Dive into vibrant flavors, fresh spices, and tempting textures with dishes from East Asian culinary treasures, Japan and Korea. These four books contain technical guidance, ingredient information, and all the recipes you could need, from entry level to the tantalising and complex.

The Korean Table

The Korean Table

Taekyung Chung and Debra Samuels

Taekyung Chung and Debra Samuels met in Tokyo, both ex-pats - Chung from Seoul and Samuels from Boston and from their friendship and fascination with Korean food, this book emerged. Recipes use easy-to-source ingredients, starting with a helpful section about stocking your pantry for the more unusual items, including black rice and Korean red pepper paste. Learn how to make Mandu, Korean dumplings made from beef, pork, tofu or kimchi, served with a dipping sauce.
Korean Cooking Made Easy

Korean Cooking Made Easy

Soon Young Chung

With a tantalizing balance of tastes and textures and the satisfying crunch of pickled and fermented vegetables, Korean dishes deliver incredible variety to every meal--and its emphasis on vegetables and grains makes these dishes as healthy as they are delicious! Korean cuisine is today's new "it" food, and Korean Cooking Made Easy is the perfect introduction to making it at home.
Japanese Homestyle Cooking

Japanese Homestyle Cooking

Susie Donald

Few home cooks prepare the dishes typically served in restaurants and nowhere is that truer than in Japan and fortunately, Japanese Homestyle Cooking introduces Western taste buds to the flavorful, delicious, and easy-to-prepare foods that Japanese home cooks make every day for family and friends.
The Japanese Kitchen

The Japanese Kitchen

Hiroko Shimbo

The recipes in The Japanese Kitchen tell how to: choose and fillet a fish for sashimi; make a rolled omelette; grill a chicken yakitori-style for a glossy exterior; make miso soup, sushi, and sukiyaki; make your own sweet pickled ginger and udon noodles, and much more. Since the recipes are organised in familiar categories, you will learn to incorporate them into a western meal as well as how to serve them in a Japanese-style dinner.

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"It's always nice to do a recipe where other reviewers have commented. This one caught my eye. I followed the Matthew Cockerill method of cheating with the Madeira sauce, and I wouldn't call my mash 'silky smooth', but it was a great dish nonetheless." ckbk user, Alison Stattersfield

Author spotlight

Velda de la Garza

Velda de la Garza

Velda de la Garza is a registered dietician and cookbook author based in Texas, who is passionate about promoting better health. In her book Healthy Easy Mexican, she applies this health driven approach to the foods she loves of her Mexican heritage.

Bo Corley

Bo Corley

Bo Corley began his cooking journey due to a personal health crisis. His determination to eat well and feed his family with nutritious food that is easy to prepare resulted in his journey to cookbook author and food content creator. Dinner in One Take, published in 2024, is his debut cookbook.

Anna Stanford

Anna Stanford

Cookbook author Anna Stanford is a home cook and mother of three, on a mission to share her experience of cooking for a family, and create recipes that are approachable and appealing to all. Her book, Anna's Family Kitchen, is packed with tips and guidance for the busy family cook.

Features & Stories

ckbk's Best of 2025: Your favorite books and recipes

ckbk's Best of 2025: Your favorite books and recipes

It’s a wrap for 2025! Another year of milestones for ckbk, including adding the 1,000th cookbook to our ever-growing online collection. Thanks to all the ckbk users, authors and publishers who have helped us along the way. Below we present a list of the books and recipes which have been used most through the year via the ckbk website and app.

Newsletter: 🥳 Your New Year’s party planner (plus an option if you need a late gift) 🎁

Newsletter: 🥳 Your New Year’s party planner (plus an option if you need a late gift) 🎁

To all of you, a gigantic thank you for being with us along the way in 2025, we appreciate every one of you, your wonderful comments, the recipes you try and share with us, your place in our food-loving community. Thank you.

As we finish up the mince pies, and lunch on turkey sandwiches, we turn our thoughts to New Year’s Eve, what to make for the party of the year, and what to raise a glass of.

Newsletter: All the Christmas recipes and food lover gifts you could possibly need 🎁🎄

Newsletter: All the Christmas recipes and food lover gifts you could possibly need 🎁🎄

Christmas pudding is that once a year treat, rich in sweet fruits, seasoned with spice and more than its fair share of brandy, and everyone looks forward to it. Unless, of course, you don’t. It you are one of the naysayers, never fear, we’ve got a recipe for that. Your Christmas table will nonetheless be graced with a pudding to thrill them all, fitting of the annual feast.

Newsletter: 🕎 A Happy Hanukkah, with help from Evelyn and Judi Rose + alternatives to turkey for Christmas 🦃

Newsletter: 🕎 A Happy Hanukkah, with help from Evelyn and Judi Rose + alternatives to turkey for Christmas 🦃

Jewish food is as rich and varied as the many communities worldwide who have developed their own traditions, and evolve them today. As we publish Judi Rose’s feature on Hanukkah, we are delighted also to highlight the addition of her latest book to ckbk. In To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food, written together with her cousin Dr Jackie Rose, Judi combines aspects of a nutritious Mediterranean diet with Jewish culinary traditions, taking inspiration from her mother's recipes.

Recipes to celebrate Hanukkah

Recipes to celebrate Hanukkah

To mark the recent arrival on ckbk of To Life!  by Judi Rose, daughter of legendary Jewish food writer Evelyn Rose MBE, we asked Judi to share some of her favourite family memories, recipes and traditions for this month’s Jewish festival of Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights. Don’t miss her family potato latke recipe!