Word: ahn
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...self-described food fanatic, Helen K. Ahn ’03 says her high school in New Paris, Ohio was “literally surrounded by nothing but corn.” She remembers that her neighbors ate casseroles, meat and potatoes and that her mother had to drive an hour and a half to find Korean ingredients. It was not an auspicious beginning for a girl now in love with the creativity and variety that preparing food allows...
...hate going to the local grocery store when I’m home,” Ahn says. “Tofu is still exotic there.” Even worse, although her mother is a versatile cook, her father’s more traditional “rice and kimchee” diet defined the family palate. Exposed early on to simple Midwestern tastes, Ahn was unexcited by the idea of cooking...
...another troupe co-leader, estimates that it dates back several centuries and that it is the oldest of Korean folk arts traditions. Dancing and drumming is the type of thing farmers would do in order to unwind after a long spell in the fields, Lee says. Ahn says drumming “tended to be the music of the common people…farmers especially...
...troupe and by a developing Korea. At each of the troupe’s performances, Han Ma-Eum will select one or two pieces from its standard repertoire, which includes such traditional and modern works as “Young mam” (originally a celebration of the harvest, Ahn says), “Yong ho” and “Utdari”—rhythmic music...
...probably more American than Korean, given my background,” Ahn says, remarking that her participation in Han Ma-Eum definitely “adds” to her sense of being Korean...