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H Mart’s new cookbook begins in the grocery aisle

H Mart’s new cookbook begins in the grocery aisle

Published by Sam Flores

The H Mart story starts with cabbage. In 1982, Il Yeon Kwon, a Korean immigrant, realized that New Yorkers needed a reliable source for napa cabbage, the essential ingredient in kimchi, and opened a small grocery store in Queens. Over the next four decades, the store became the country’s largest international supermarket chain, known for its kaleidoscopic pantry aisles, frozen seafood and neatly packed containers of banchan. This fall, H Mart is offering shoppers a guide to what they might do once they get everything home. Written by Stacey Kwon—Il Yeon Kwon’s daughter and the company’s current president—“H Mart: The Cookbook” contains more than 75 recipes, including spicy cucumber salad, stir-fried sweet potato noodles and cheese buldak kimchi bokkeumbap, her particularly exuberant form of cheesy kimchi fried rice. The recipes are interspersed with stories from Kwon’s childhood in the store and illustrated spreads devoted to ingredients such as seaweed and tofu, explaining their varieties, particular virtues and best uses. “We created this cookbook as a resource to help you find your way through the aisles …

AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains

AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for JBS Foods are paralyzed as an $11 million ransomware attack takes out their processing facilities. Some 2.2 million workers at Stop & Shop and Hannaford have their personal data exposed as the result of a cyberattack on parent company Ahold Delhaize USA. These scenarios, straight from a William Gibson novel, are becoming increasingly common in supply chains across the world. As recently noted by Mohammed Alzuhair, a doctoral candidate in business administration at Durham University, the growing number of grocery store failures isn’t a coincidence, but the result of AI’s pernicious creep into the global food network. In a bygone age, food went from farm and orchard straight to the general store — the only middleman being a clerk whose storefront served as an easy rallying point for consumers. Today, the supply chain is like a spider web of contractors and wholesalers, where every shipment is insured based …