Songpyeon (Korean: 송편) is a traditional Korean food made of rice powder. Its shape resembles a half moon and it is a representative rice cake of Korean holidays and traditional culture. It is a type of tteok,small rice cakes,and variety of fillings are used—some include red bean paste,toasted sesame seeds,and chestnuts. Songpyeon is traditionally eaten during the Korean autumn harvest festival,Chuseok,where it is often prepared by families at home. It is a popular symbol of traditional Korean culture. The earliest records of songpyeon date from the Goryeo period.
A rice cake may be any kind of food item made from rice that has been shaped,condensed,or otherwise combined into a single object. A wide variety of rice cakes exist in many different cultures in which rice is eaten. Common variations include cakes made with rice flour,those made from ground rice,and those made from whole grains of rice compressed together or combined with some other binding substance.
Bánh lá,literally meaning "leaf cake",is a category of bánh,or Vietnamese cakes,that consist of a parcel of a variety of rice stuffed with some fillings and wrapped in a leaf or leaves.
Patjuk is a type of Korean juk consisting of red beans and rice. It is commonly eaten during the winter season in Korea,and it is associated with dongji,as people used to believe that the red color of patjuk drives off baneful spirits.
Sirutteok (Korean: 시루떡) is a type of Korean rice cake (tteok) traditionally made by steaming rice or glutinous rice flour in a "siru" (시루).
Chalbori-ppang is a South Korean confection,consisting of two small pancakes made with glutinous barley flour wrapped around a filling of red bean paste. The round,flat,mildly sweet confection has a texture similar to that of a glutinous sponge cake.
Gyeongdan (Korean: 경단) or Korean rice ball cake is a type of tteok made of glutinous rice or other glutinous cereal flours. When the cereal other than rice is used,its name is usually specified,making compound nouns such as susugyeongdan. The name chapssalgyeongdan may also be used,but chapssal can be,and usually is,omitted.
Kudzu powder,called géfěn (葛粉) in Chinese,kuzuko in Japanese,chik-garu (칡가루) or galbun in Korean,and bột sắn dây in Vietnamese is a starch powder made from the root of the kudzu plant. It is used in traditional East Asian cuisine mainly for thickening sauces and making various types of desserts.
Sam Cullman is a cinematographer,director and editor of documentaries,and the founder of Yellow Cake Films,a film production company.
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black,becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category,and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015,she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents:The T Word,making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017,she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
The International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor is an award presented by the International Academy of Television Arts &Sciences (IATAS) dedicated to for male performance from a program originally created for television.
Jung Hye-sun is a South Korean actress. Jung made her entertainment debut as a voice actress with the KBS Daejeon Radio in 1960,then began acting onscreen through the first KBS public audition in 1961. She has been active in Korean film,television and theater for more than five decades.
The International Emmy Award for Best Documentary is presented since 1967 by the International Academy of Television Arts &Sciences (IATAS) to the best documentaries produced and aired initially outside the United States.
The 41st International Emmy Awards took place on November 25,2013,at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City and hosted by British Comedian and actor John Oliver. The award ceremony,presented by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS),honors all TV programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.
The 38th International Emmy Awards took place on November 22,2010,in New York City,and was hosted by actor Jason Priestley. The award ceremony,presented by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS),honors all TV programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.
Red bean paste or red bean jam,also called adzuki bean paste or anko,is a paste made of red beans,used in East Asian cuisine. The paste is prepared by boiling the beans,then mashing or grinding them. At this stage,the paste can be sweetened or left as it is. The color of the paste is usually dark red,which comes from the husk of the beans. In Korean cuisine,the adzuki beans can also be husked prior to cooking,resulting in a white paste. It is also possible to remove the husk by sieving after cooking,but before sweetening,resulting in a red paste that is smoother and more homogeneous.
Jjinppang is a steamed bun,typically filled with red bean paste with bits of broken beans and bean husk. Traditional jjinppang is made of sourdough fermented using the yeast in makgeolli,but younger varieties such as hoppang are often made without fermentation. Warm jjinppang is softer than baked breads due to the higher moisture content,but it hardens as it cools. Thus it is recommended to eat while the bun is still hot. Hardened jjinppang can be steamed again before eaten.
Red bean rice,called patbap (팥밥) in Korean,sekihan (赤飯) in Japanese,and hóngdòu fàn (红豆饭) in Chinese,is an East Asian rice dish consisting of rice cooked with red beans.
"Ice Cream Cake" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Red Velvet for their debut extended play Ice Cream Cake (2015). Primarily a dance-rock track with influences from drum and bass,the song was written by lyricist Jo Yoon-kyung,Kim Dong-hyun,Fredrik Häggstam,Hayley Aitken,Johan Gustafsson and Sebastian Lundberg,while production and arrangement were handled by Hayley Aitken and Trinity Music. Following the release of "Automatic",it was released as the group's second single from the extended play on March 16,2015,by SM Entertainment,along with an accompanying music video. With its parental release,the group showcased their dual sonic concept in one album for the first time as "Ice Cream Cake" was promoted as the "Red" single,in contrast to "Automatic" which was promoted as its "Velvet" single.
Pableaux Johnson is a New Orleans–based writer,photographer,filmmaker,cook,and designer. His work focuses on the food and culture of New Orleans.
