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www.groovekorea.com / January 2014 42 FOOD & DRINK Edited by Josh Foreman (joshforeman@groovekorea.com) T he list of things you should never do includes stuff like walking around barefoot in a cow pas- ture, singing “Black Hole Sun” at the noraebang, using a preposition to end a sentence (stop that) or going to a doctor whose office plants have died. You should also never write a student’s name in red, get arrested or do anything that even kind of resembles the chicken dance. But making your own tortillas? Now this, this doesn’t belong on the list. It took me forever to figure it out too, so don’t beat yourself up — just make up for lost time and start making your own tortillas, here and now. Yeah, yeah, they’re readily available and fairly cheap at the store, but when you’ve had a hot, fresh, pillowy tortilla straight off the stove, you’ll start to realize exactly how superior they are to the flat, cold, dry ones that were freshly made back in April. It’s January, and that means we’re all just biding our time, waiting out the winter one agonizingly gray day at a time until we can feel our fingers and toes again, ordering two beers at the same time and being perfectly fine with dropping 50,000 won on one of those heavy blankets made out of stuffed animal fabric. We’re all in limbo here to- gether, friends, and eating paltry meals out of plas- tic is a guaranteed way to make things way, way worse. Wouldn’t life be better if you had a burrito right about now? A hot, spicy burrito wrapped in a steaming homemade tortilla that you originally thought was out of your league? Look at you and your bad self, and hey, just look at that freakin’ burrito. Let’s eat and drink until spring. About the writer: Shelley DeWees worked as a vegan chef for a Buddhist monastery before moving to Seoul. She is a columnist for Groove Korea. Her opinions do not neccesarily refect those of the magazine. See her website, www.seoulveggiekitchen. com. — Ed. Homemade tortillas and Moroccan-spiced bean burrit os sEOUL vEGGIE KITChEN Column and Photos by Shelley DeWees