Taste Korea, published in Dutch as Proef Korea, is a cookbook by chef Ae Jin Huys, founder of Mokja, a practice introducing Korean cuisine through catering, workshops and pop-ups. The book, published by Lannoo and available in English, Dutch and German, brings together seventy Korean recipes grounded in the principle that the cuisine can be cooked with ingredients that are locally available, rather than depending on specialist imports. Each ingredient is given its own photograph alongside the recipe.
Studio Studio designed the book and extended the principle of accessibility into its navigation. The index is organised by the dominant colour of the main ingredient of each recipe rather than alphabetically, so that the reader enters the book visually, through the ingredient they see, rather than through a name they would need to know in advance. The same logic carries through the typography: the Korean alphabet is set alongside the Latin script in vertical alignments, with Korean-inspired emoticons threaded through the pages, letting both writing systems remain present on equal terms.
