Lauryn Chun is the owner of Mother in Law's Kimchi and the author of The Kimchi Cookbook.
Gochujang is omnipresent in Asian grocery stores - the red plastic boxes line entire aisles. Very few people make the fermented Korean chili paste from scratch, but Chun was inspired to learn how to make it from her mother who remembers making the chile paste from scratch when she was growing up in Korea.