A completed recipe of miyeok guk, Korean seaweed soup. It's made to celebrate birthdays, but also as a means of reminding those who eat it of the postpartum journey their mothers have gone through.
Author-illustrator Hyewon Yum’s picture book A Spoonful of the Sea examines the Korean tradition of miyeok-guk, a seaweed soup that’s served to both nursing mothers the month after they give birth, ...