date:Oct 23, 2018
One of the ironies of my grad school experience involved teaching Korean housemates, who possessed zero cooking skills, how to cook rice with a rice maker no less. As an outsider to Korean culture, I quickly realized two things: that women do most of the cooking and that there are two food items no Korean household can live without, steamed white rice and kimchi. Rice was cheap and easy to prepare and was eaten out of necessity; on the other hand, kimchi was treated with near reverence.
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