A Debut Worth Carrying Home: H Mart Writes Its First Cookbook

The Korean grocery chain has released a cookbook, its first, built around the cooking of Korean Americans. President Stacey Kwon frames the volume as something larger than a stack of recipes, saying that for Koreans a meal carries real weight and that this book is meant as an act of affection. For a desk that usually tracks hemlines and tiaras, we will concede that a well-laid table is its own way of dressing up.

With reporting from Vogue.