7 titles, most popular first
In Joseon, at a time when women had little influence, the orphaned Jang-geum enters the royal kitchen as a young apprentice cook. Determined and hardworking, she sets out to master the secrets of Korean cooking and medicine, in a story inspired by a real woman of the era.
Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family that has run a noodle factory on the edge of Seoul for three generations. Married into the wealthy family behind Golden Dragon Food, she has endured years of hostility from a mother-in-law who never accepted her, and when her husband cheats, she decides to leave him.
Orphan Moon Soo-in marries into the chaebol family behind bakery giant Shinhwa Group, but after her husband's sudden death, the family blames her for their own crimes and she is sent to prison. There she bonds with three cellmates, and the four grow close in baking classes taught by widowed hotel chef Nam Woo-suk.
A man who once dreamed of being a cook grows up to become a neurosurgeon instead, while a woman takes up cooking because of him. Their story is drawn from the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul.
Jo Hee-ra is a witch who runs a restaurant where desperate people come hoping a special meal will make their wishes come true. But every wish has a price: in return, each customer must give up the thing they value most in their life.
Abandoned by her boyfriend after their baby is born, a desperate Lee Soo-jung gives her daughter up for adoption and moves to the United States, renaming herself Rena Jung. Twenty years later she returns to Korea as a glamorous celebrity chef willing to fake credentials and use people to get ahead. Her goal is a loveless match with Park Min-joon, the cold eldest son of TNC Group's chairman.
Eun-jae is a proud, stubborn 20-year-old who loves cooking, so she leaves high school early and runs off to a cooking school in Vicenza, Italy, along with a devoted friend. There she meets Han Yi-joon, heir to a family hotel and restaurant business, who has come to find the mother who left him as a child.
