In-Person Cooking Class

Korean/Hawaiian with Beth Lee

Fri | Mar 28, 2025 | 6–10P PT

Teacher Beth Lee

Beth Lee is an award winning food writer and teacher who is passionate about bringing her husband’s Korean Hawaiian food heritage to life. With a partial cookbook of his family recipes as her guide, she has recreated each dish with a modern spin before getting her husband’s assurance that his mom, grandma and aunties would approve.

In this class, Beth will share her family’s Hawaiian take on some Korean classics. You’ll see how easy it is to make the Korean short ribs called kalbi and learn how to fill, fold and cook (2 ways!) mandu (Korean dumplings). We’ll serve them with a mix of homemade and shop bought banchan, the tempting small plates integral to most every Korean meal.

Expect to be carried away with aloha spirit as we conclude with a convivial meal of all you have cooked with Beth and your classmates, with accompanying conversation, wines and non-alcoholic beverages.

$190 Per Person

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Duration: 4 hours

Menu | Recipes*

Kalbi
Korean Short Ribs

Mandu (2 Ways)
Korean Dumplings

Mandu Dipping Sauce
Cho Jung

Banchan
Cucumber Salad, Kimchi, Bean Sprout Namul

Beth's Classic Rice

A Sweet Hawaiian Treat

* Subject to change

About the teacher

Beth Lee

BETH A. LEE’s cooking reflects her family’s Jewish/Hawaiian/Korean heritage, with a love of Middle Eastern ingredients thrown in for good measure. Her recipes and classes range from challah and babka to pomegranates and preserved lemons, and include Hawaiian/Korean family favorites like kalbi and banchan.

Beth grew up on the East Coast before moving to Northern California, far away from the traditional Jewish food she was raised on. In 2010, she realized she preferred pita chips to computer chips and launched her award winning food blog, OMG! Yummy. Through the blog, she reconnected with her love of cooking and a passion for documenting her family’s multicultural food traditions.

Beth has been featured in the New York Times, The LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Forward and on many podcasts and blogs. She also co-leads a popular virtual cooking group, Tasting Jerusalem, focused on Middle Eastern cuisines and ingredients.

Her first cookbook, The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook: 50 Traditional Recipes for Every Occasion, came out August 2021 to great acclaim. She is hard at work on her second cookbook.

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