‘That’s the way my mother did it’: Eric Kim gets a culinary education

When cooking writer Eric Kim drove from New York back to Atlanta to solicit his mother’s help for a chapter of his upcoming cookbook, he anticipated being there for a month. With the constant pandemic curveballs, the visit was extended to nine months. Kim’s assumptions of his mother’s dishes and the ingredients she relies on were surprising and enlightening. He documented the experience in his recent piece for the New York Times.