Good article Unc!

It’s a good thing too, because even though I love to cook, I can’t make anything that ferments with yeast or bacteria for some reason. I’ve failed repeatedly at kimchi, half-sours, yogurt, bread or sauerkraut. I’m afraid to try beer, as that would likely turn out as alcohol abuse.

My favourite fermented kimchi is the “young radish” kind, and my favourite non-fermented (which I can make myself) is cucumber kimchi (oisobagi)

Oh, lots of people who think that the gubmint is Mommy and Daddy.

In re meat, the bigger commercial operations were plain ol’ nasty back in The Day, which led to inspection and regulation that the small — and usually worlds cleaner — local butcher could not afford to comply with. Just another thing to thank the socialists for, Upton Sinclair in this case; take consolation that he was hugely miffed when his screed against capitalist exploitation was taken by the reading public as a food-safety expose instead. (Wik up “The Jungle.”)

No way a bigger company could match that level of service and freshness. So they required inspection. That slowed the local butchers down, cutting freshness. They then required each butcher to hire, at his own expense, a government inspector. Only the large companies could afford that.

In the 1960′s, dog meat featured prominently on most cafe menus; spiced and quite tasty, ala London Broil.

Yup, their are even extended multi-day kimchi tours available in Korea. Very popular with the Japanese.

Yes, nk, not all kimchi is fermented.

Heck, chow chow is just Appalachian kimchi.

I especially like cucumber kimchi, but they make it with radishes and sprouts as well.

It is incredibly tasty though.

I do second the comment above about what could live in Kimche. It wouldn’t surprise me if it cured cancer and swine flu at the same time. Any thing that could live through it is not of this world and therefore harmless to the life forms here.

I think government regulations are pushed by big business to stifle competition.

A marriage made in heaven.

2. Vote for no incumbent.

3. Rinse, repeat.

Poor Koreans. They probably came here under the mistaken assumption that this was a free country.

Here in Texas, and in California, for any Vietnamese dish you’d want, there seems to be an old lady or family who makes nothing but that dish. At family gatherings these days, where you can imagine a table seating 12 with eight to a dozen different dishes, half the food eaten comes from these old ladies, because it’s too much hassle (read: labor intensive) to cook these dishes yourself.