Please check out Granny Choe’s magical new video entitled “How Kimchi is Made.” You’ll be glad you did. We’ll be glad you did too because it took us ages to make it.
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Archive for November, 2009
Video: How Kimchi is Made (featuring Granny Choe’s ninja peppers)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Granny Choe’s kimchi in KoreAm magazine
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Hey, look! It’s our kimchi on the “Hotpot” page of KoreAm‘s November issue, just hitting shelves now. Awesome possum.
PS: They’ve just relaunched their website, and it looks great… AND it’s a wealth of information on contemporary Korean-American culture (in case you are looking to brush up).
Stinky Stuff Art Contest Winner: James Gulliver Hancock
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
We are pleased to present to you the winner of Granny Choe’s Stinky Stuff Art Contest: Mr. James Gulliver Hancock. We aren’t authorities on art or anything… we chose it simply because we like how funky and fun it is (and really, isn’t that reason enough?). Here’s what James wrote about his entry:
Hi there my name is James Gulliver Hancock and my friend Jessica went to the Machine Project Kimchi event. We both love the astonishing stinky flavour of kimchi and I did this drawing in homage to that. The jar and the recipe she brought back from the event inspired this drawing.
You might have noticed from his spelling of “flavour” that Mr. Hancock is not from around these parts. As we have learned, he is an international award-winning artist with a client list that makes hipsters swoon (Nylon Magazine, Herman Miller furniture, and Simon & Schuster Publishers are just a few). You can check out some of his other artwork on his homepage, and if you (unlike us) are cool enough to have an iPhone, you can even get an iPhone cover with one of his gorgeous illustrations on it (this one appears to be of a kraken threatening a pirate ship).
James, please enjoy your prize of a year’s supply of stinky, spicy delicious kimchi from Granny Choe’s! You deserve it.
Gamene dedicates bento to Granny Choe’s
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Well-known bentoist, “Gamene,” saw that we had posted a picture of her flippin’ adorable kimchi mandoo bento box a couple weeks ago, and she has just blown us away by dedicating a bento to Granny Choe’s Kimchi Co.! She made kimchi pancakes using Granny Choe’s kimchi and our recipe, then painstakingly crafted our logo out of nori. We are impressed and flattered… and we totally wish that she would make us lunch, but dedicating her lunch to us is probably the next best thing.
Photo by gamene via Flickr
The 10-day festival devoted to kimchi
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
One of Korea’s major events, the Gwangju Kimchi Cultural Festival, just wrapped up last week. The fact that they have a 10-day festival devoted to the food will tell you- kimchi is a big deal, in case you hadn’t noticed. Here’s a bit about it from the Korean Tourism Organization:
Organized since 1994, the Gwangju Kimchi Festival is all about kimchi – Korea’s most representative food. There is a program to sample kimchi with foods that go well with it and a buffet serving kimchi and the local foods of Gwangju… Major events include cooking with kimchi, gayageum performance, kimchi making with international visitors, hanbok fashion show, kimchi concert, folk games, and kimchi printing.”
Question: What on earth is kimchi printing? Is it weird that we immediately pictured those street vendors who put your custom message on a grain of rice and place it in a vial for you to wear around your neck… you know, but with kimchi instead of a piece of rice.
2,500 volunteers come together to make kimchi
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Oh my gosh, you guys… it’s kimchi making season. And thanks to the power of internet, we already have access to the Getty Images photo from the huge annual kimchi making event for the underpriveleged that is taking place today in Seoul.
” SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – NOVEMBER 09: South Korean women make ‘kimchi’, a traditional pungent vegetable dish, which is donated to the poor in preparation for winter on November 9, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. About 2,500 housewives made 50,000 packets of kimchi. Made with cabbage, other vegetables and chili sauce, kimchi is the most popular traditional food in Korea.”
Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Quick kimchi breakfast recipe
Monday, November 9th, 2009
A Granny Choe’s customer named Chad sent us this quick and easy kimchi omelet recipe last week, and we can’t wait to try it. Let us know what you think! Warning: you must be able to endure your own kimchi breath the rest of the day…
“Toss 3 Tbs Granny Choe’s original cabbage kimchi with a little olive oil into a pan and nearly dry it out. Then toss in 2 eggs with a little milk and make the best damn omelet you have ever had.
Spicy, smoky, very good!”
We just inherited a couple of laying hens and are now enjoying fresh eggs from our own backyard, so we are especially eager to try this recipe. And also, we didn’t think we’d ever be saying this, but we’re really excited to have chickens at home because we feel a little less wasteful; Now protein leftovers go to the dog, vegetable leftovers go to the hens and any remaining organic waste (peels, leaves, etc.) goes in the composting bin. It’s great… like the Circle of Life or something.
Photo courtesy of woodleywonderworks via Flickr.