Plagued by a diasporic desire to taste her ancestral doenjang, Wensu travels through a hermit kingdom’s history and gastronomy in the hopes of recovering an authentic, pungent flavor that's been sealed and encrypted by modernity. Seen through the eyes of Korean women over time, FOODS OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR is an incomplete survey of how war and colonialism change how we flavor, preserve, and package food and cultural memory.
