What is kimchi and how is it made?
We found an entire category in the Yahoo! Directory that listed web sites about kimchi. The first sentence on the first web site we visited, titled Life in Korea: Kimchi Spotlight, declares that “Kimchi represents Korea’s best known food.” In fact, kimchi is a generic name for a multitude of seasonal and regional varieties of pickled or fermented vegetable side dishes flavored with seafood and spices, and high in vitamins, minerals, and lactic acid. The world of kimchi can be divided into kimjang kimchi, produced in late autumn for long-term storage over the chilly Korean winter, and the more perishable kimchis, produced from market-fresh vegetables in season. Baechu, or whole cabbage kimchi, is a familiar Korean classic. Whole cabbages are cleaned, sectioned, and soaked for several hours in a salt-water b
