Got a lot of time on your hands this summer? Like spicy smelly food that’s been fermenting for a while but tastes great? Make kimchi!

Kimchi is a dish that is to Korea as french fries are to the United States. (Editor’s Note: Great when you’re drunk/depressed?) In other words, it is much craved and eaten with everything.

So what is it? Well, generally speaking, it’s spiced up, fermented cabbage. Like super fermented. Like days – and sometimes years-long – fermented.

No, but seriously, it is. But, I mean, it’s delicious. A bajillion Koreans (and Americans and Europeans and all the other world-wide kimchi converts) can’t be wrong.

So satisfy your ferment tooth (mmm…fermented…) with this tasty recipe and broaden those horizons. Read More »

This summer I’m proud to say I actually did a couple things with my life, including a relaxing week-long vacation in London with only the very best of sidekicks, my awkwardly hilarious sister.

Lucky for us, two chickadees who tend to violently swat the air when someone’s smoking a ciggy nearby, we arrived on the exact day that smoking was banned in any public restaurant, pub, or place. This ban was lucky for two secondhand smoke sneering tourists, not so lucky for stinky smelly pubs across Britain. Read More »