Gimjang: how I make kimchi…and why

One of these days, I’ll finish my series of posts about my time in Korea but not today. Instead, this is sort of a tangent to those posts: how I got into making kimchi.

Okay, so there is a bit about my time in Korea. I don’t think I’d ever had Korean food before boarding the plane to Seoul. So I decided that would be a good time to try kimchi. After that initial taste, I decided I would never eat kimchi again.

Haahahaahaaha. Oh, my sides.

Over my first few months, I did try kimchi again. And again. At first...