LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ― U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen saw more lucrative deals evaporate despite her renewed apologies for using a racial slur, as retailer Target Corp, drug company Novo Nordisk A/S, Sears, J.C. Penney and Walgreen joined the list of sponsors distancing themselves from the doyenne of Southern cooking. But in a sign that Deen could make a comeback, her upcoming cookbook “Paula Deen’s New Testament,” which features “lightened up” recipes, shot to the top of the Amazon books best-

Special summer menu at Hyatt Regency Incheon Restaurant 8 at Hyatt Regency Incheon presents its summer special menu from July 1 featuring health foods in Korean, Japanese and Chinese traditional style. The menus include croaker soup and duck boiled with nureungji (a thin crust of scorched rice); steamed Korean “ogol” chicken with pine mushrooms seasoned with XO sauce and cold noodles; and some of the most famous Japanese health foods: eel, roasted abalone, and sea urchin eggs. The summer menus a

Ice cream and milkshakes make for great treats. Treats that Cho Sang-hyun developed a taste for while studying abroad in America. Eager to share his passion for ice cream by opening a parlor in South Korea, Cho searched high and low for what he deemed the right combination of texture, sweetness and flavor. “I wanted something not too sweet but still rich,” Cho said. He found what he was looking for in Singapore, at Once Upon a Milkshake, an ice cream parlor chain that first opened in 2009. This

W Seoul-Walkerhill has recently recruited renowned Japanese Chef Miyake Kazuya from Tokyo to introduce the latest trends in Japanese cuisine at the hotel’s contemporary Japanese restaurant Namu. The chef has vast experience ranging from traditional Japanese cuisine to contemporary cooking. “I’ll keep presenting new menus in a creative food style that fuses the latest culinary trends and traditional tastes of Japanese cuisine,” Chef Kazuya told The Korea Herald. Some of his newly created dishes m

 Jaengban guksu is a cold noodle dish served in a large platter with lots of fresh vegetables. It’s usually for more than one person and is meant to be shared at the table. Jaengban guksu is a type of bibim guksu, which typically is mixed with a tangy and spicy red chili pepper sauce. I used green tea noodles here, but you can use any noodles you want. Also, it’s versatile, so you can use almost any salad vegetables you like, such as bell peppers, onions, bean sprouts and spinach. If you have le

NEW YORK (AP) ― The Statue of Liberty is scheduled to reopen to visitors on July Fourth for the first time since Superstorm Sandy. But for those who just want a photo op with the statue, there are many other vantage points, from Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Governors Island, to a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The Staten Island ferry takes you right past the statue for free, while those on bigger budgets can reserve a room with a view at the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel. Here are some ways to get a gr

CAPETOWN, South Africa ― “What will you do?” our mustachioed safari guide Deon Gericke asked. Each of us in turn gave our guesses on how to best to survive an impromptu encounter with a lion in the wild.“Firstly, take your glasses off and make eye contact because eyes on the front is a meat eater. Eyes over here is an herbivore,” he continued, pointing to the side of his head. “The lions know that, so hopefully they are going to be backing off and look at me and see that I am meat eater.” Some 3

Pop music“2013 Ansan Valley Rock Festival”: As Korea’s biggest rock festival, the Valley Rock Festival presents one of the best line-ups of big musicians from Korea and abroad such as this year’s headliners The Cure, NiN, Skrillex, the Foals, the XX, My Bloody Valentine, Idiotape, Peppertones and many others. This year’s festival has moved from Jisan Resort to the Daebu Sea Breeze Theme Park. The three-day festival will be held July 26-28. Ticket prices are 120,000 won for a one-day pass, 230,00

Nearly 25 percent of adult citizens in Seoul were found to be obese in 2012, with the proportion on the rise for the fourth consecutive year, according to a survey of 23,165 citizens aged 19 or older. Korea considers people obese when their body mass index measurement exceeds 25 and with extreme obese when their BMI exceeds 30.

Brucellosis is a highly infectious bacterial disease that can transfer from species to species and occurs across the world. It is most common along the Mediterranean Coast, Middle East, India and in central South America, but since the first reported cases of brucellosis in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, in July 2002, the incidence has increased. The Infectious Diseases Prevention Act has named brucellosis a class 3 reportable disease, and bovine (cow) brucellosis is controlled as a class 2 infectious

Sleep disorders have become a major health concern, as stress, irregular lifestyles and electronic gadgets hamper more Koreans from getting enough shut-eye. According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of patients with sleep disorders surged 60 percent from 384,910 in 2008 to 616,619 last year.The number of insomniacs increased across all age groups, except for those aged 19 and under, it added. Sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea, sleep deprivation and e

Marzena Stefanska discusses her love for Korean women writers, publishing Korean literature in her country

Stamps of Donguibogam, one of the most famous traditional Korean medical books, and its editor Heo Jun have been printed in the United States. Media Joha, a New Jersey-based Korean-American business, recently printed the stamps through Photo Stamps, a postage service provider approved by the U.S. Postal Service, Yonhap News Agency reported.The stamps commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the book and its editor. “Donguibogam: Principles and Practice of Eastern Medicine” is an