Winter food is eaten first with the hands. The warmth of the paper cup and the palms wrapped around the bowl are half the taste. Three descend. Eat one outdoors and one indoors. Take the hot ones slowly. 1. Eomuk-tang, fish cake soup — One cup of the broth warms the hands faster than gloves. 2. Hotteok, a sugar-filled griddle pancake — The hot sugar inside is winter’s only impatience. 3. Seolleongtang, milky ox bone soup — One bowl of pale broth warms you to the bone. Hesiod wrote that in the month of Lenaion the north wind pierces even the hide of an ox.

LOREVIVA 261

Question:“On winter food”

On winter food

Winter food is eaten first with the hands. The warmth of the paper cup and the palms wrapped around the bowl are half the taste.

Three descend. Eat one outdoors and one indoors. Take the hot ones slowly.

Eomuk-tang, fish cake soupOne cup of the broth warms the hands faster than gloves.
Hotteok, a sugar-filled griddle pancakeThe hot sugar inside is winter’s only impatience.
Seolleongtang, milky ox bone soupOne bowl of pale broth warms you to the bone.

Hesiod wrote that in the month of Lenaion the north wind pierces even the hide of an ox.