Via Evan Kleiman’s always informative radio show Good Food, (available as a free podcast in the iTunes store), an illustrated walk down the aisles of a Korean grocery store with Debbie Lee. Learn how to make your meals more exciting with pepper paste and save some money while you’re at it!
Something that I have been thinking about since I heard a report on NPR about India’s cancer train http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103569390 is the regulations for the use of pesticides/herbicides in countries such as India, Korea, etc. I dearly love food from these, and other countries, but I do wonder about pesticides/herbicides.
Koreans are concerned about pesticides as well and many avoid products from China. Some Korean grocery store items, in fact, advertise the fact that they weren’t grown in China.
Interesting. When I went to a Korean grocery to buy pepper for my kimchi, I stopped a younger Korean woman and asked her to help me pick the pepper. I remember her emphasizing to me to pick the pepper grown in Korea.
Mil–I had the same experience. The pepper grown in Korea usually says “100%” on it, meaning that it all was grown in Korea.