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Seaweed Soup (Miyuk gook)

post-partum recovery 7 January 2009 | 1 Comment

Koreans take post partum recovery very seriously. You are supposed to protect yourself from the cold at all costs to avoid getting arthritis. And you are supposed to eat lots and lots of seaweed soup to help produce breastmilk. My mom made seaweed soup the day Mateo was born and brought it to the hospital. [...]