A deep expression of the five senses, taste

In Korean, the expression '밥맛없음' literally means 'I have no appetite', but also carries the emotional meaning of 'I feel disgusted and fed up, so I don't like it or don't want to deal with it.'
Conversely, the expression 'honey-flavored' literally means 'it tastes like honey', but it is also used to express a state of being at the peak of one's mood or state.
In this way, 'taste' is an expression that contains a sensory experience, but it is also a subjective expression that means emotion or state.
Moreover, taste is not only a sense of taste, but also a result of the five senses: image (sight), smell (olfactory), cooking sound (auditory), and mouth and tongue (touch).

A delightful fantasy of delicious food - From microscopic observation to an exciting world of imagination.

The story of "Tasty is Delicious" begins with the main character, "I," making a small observation.
The bird pecks at the persimmon, and the cat Ano steals the cucumber.
Mom waters the love plant, but she doesn't water 'me, the cactus'.
Younger sister Yeonwoo is young enough to put anything in her mouth.
Today I got caught trying to eat a button.
Observation stimulates a child's imagination.
Spaghetti seems like it'll make its way into my body, and lemon juice seems like it'll turn my dress yellow.
The pizza slice looks like a Christmas tree, and my brother's snow poop looks like a tasteless cake.
Delicious food stimulates our imagination through the combination of its image, scent, color, the sound of eating, and even the place where we eat it.
The child looks at the food and imagines interesting things, creating interesting stories.

Delicious sounds, delicious moments, delicious places - important factors that determine taste and happiness

The child recalls happy moments by thinking about delicious foods.
The delicious crunchy sounds, the sweet sound of kisses, the warm smell of motherhood… … Delicious sounds, delicious moments, and delicious places experienced with good people bring us happiness and leave behind good memories.
Children grow up with the happiness and memories of delicious food.
How anxious, empty, and unhappy would be the life of a child who grows up without experiencing this taste.
The protagonist child also talks about 'time'.
He says that the playtime with his friends until sunset was so short that it felt like a lollipop that was quickly eaten, and that the time waiting for his dad, who had promised to take him to the bathhouse, was so boring that it seemed like no matter how much he ate, it never got any better.
How great a punishment is it to eat food that never decreases no matter how much you eat?
But that boring time, like punishment, is instantly relieved by playing in the bath with dad and playing with bubbles that melt like ice cream.
Because the child's overwhelming happiness transcended time and space.

A world full of delicious things to live in - a precious treasure, a home that allows you to experience the taste of time.

Food becomes delicious when it is made with love.
The protagonist child speaks softly but firmly.
“Noodles, spaghetti, kisses, my room, the yard, the kitchen… everything that tastes good is really delicious.”
Now, the young 'me' who started to understand the meaning of 'taste' said to my younger sister Yeonwoo, "Yeonwoo, eat tteokguk instead of buttons.
Then you get one year older,” he says.
It means getting older, starting to taste the passage of time.


The center of the world that children experience is the home.
At home, children experience not only the taste of food, but also delicious experiences, delicious feelings, delicious thoughts, and delicious imaginations.
On the other hand, we also experience tasteless times, tasteless thoughts and feelings.
Children may only grow older as they begin to understand and appreciate the complex nature of "tasty" and "tasteless."
A child does not grow on food alone.
We grow up with the love and care of our parents who cook and prepare meals for us.
"Delicious is Delicious" contains a story of growth about a child who goes beyond the taste of food and comes to understand the meaning of time.


A painting that is soft yet firm, flowing yet with space.

Artist Kim Hyo-eun used conte to express a child's imagination of taste with soft, yet firm and rigid lines.
The child's imagination and everyday reality were captured in the margins, and the colors of the food were expressed with a point, allowing the reader to empathize with the child's imagination and thoughts while looking at the food pictures.

These two authors, who truly enjoy eating delicious food and enjoying eating with people they like, created this picture book by eating together and talking about food, the act of eating, and the value of eating together.
"Delicious is Delicious" is a work that contains the hearts of two authors who hope that readers will eat more deliciously, imagine and think more deliciously, and dream of a more delicious life through this picture book.