Lisa Ling Shares Her Mother-in-Law's Kimchi Jjigae Recipe

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Take Out With Lisa Ling, now streaming on HBO Max, there's one thing Lisa Ling wants to make clear: “I'm not a cook," says the , who hosts and executive produces the docu-series. “So I'm very forthcoming about the fact that it's not a cooking show.

It's a food show.” The six-episode series follows Ling as she interviews and celebrates the workers and owners of Asian restaurants across the United States. “Because,” Ling explains, "there's no better way to understand a hidden or buried culture than through food.

And in so many ways, Asian American history, though it is long and has deep roots in America, really has been buried.” Growing up in California, Ling says she doesn't remember a single day where she learned anything about Asian American history.

This despite the fact that she in a suburb of Sacramento, where the transcontinental railroad started. “The Asian American diaspora is so large and vast in this country,” she says. "This opportunity to delve into these unique cultures and histories, using food as the device to get into them, has not only been fascinating and fun and delicious, but it's also been so moving to really, really learn and appreciate the resilience of all of these communities.” This content can also be viewed on the site it from.And while the series takes Ling all across the country trying some of the most delicious food available, her favorite dish is something much closer to home: her mother-in-law's kimchi jjigae, or . “She's Korean, and I'm Chinese, but I'm obsessed with Korean food and always have been.