6 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.
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.
