Greater Boston Kimchi Festival 2010 Wrap-Up

Greater Boston Kimchi Festival

Sustainable, traditional, fermented!

This is the final post on the subject. Rather than doing more posts, I will update this post as new bits come in.  

If there's anything missing here, please put it in a comment and I'll add it.

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Press and blogs:

• 2010-04-24 GardenGirltv (video)
• 2010-04-06 Boston Korea (in English)
• 2010-03-29 Boston Korea
• 2010-03-27 Boston Korea 
• 2010-03-27 Boston Korea 
• 2010-03-26 Living on Earth (radio)
• 2010-03-25 West Roxbury-Roslindale Bulletin
• 2010-03-25 Wicked Local Roslindale
• 2010-03-25 Writer, Foodie, Traveler
• 2010-03-23 The Veg Table
• 2010-03-22 Stuff Boston
• 2010-03-19 Daily Kos
• 2010-03-10 Boston Globe
• 2010-03-03 Bostonist
• 2010-02-13 Boston Korea (translation parts 1 and 2)
  
• 2010-01-28 Dishing (boston.com)
• 2010-01-14 West Roxbury-Roslindale Bulletin (parts 1 and 2)
  

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Winners:

• Best Professional Kimchi: Jum Nam of Shabu Ya Restaurant, Cucumber Kimchi
• Most Innovative: Il Sun Jeon, Fruit Kimchi
• Most Innovative: Didi Emmons, Lemon Kimchi
• Best Traditional Cabbage: Tom Novotny, Kiss Me Kimchi
• Best Traditional Non-Cabbage: Patricia Yu, Radish Kimchi
• Best In Show: Patricia Yu, Radish Kimchi

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Photos etc:

• alexlewin's flickr
• Facebook page

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Stats:

• 300 attendees (press estimates)
• 24 kimchis
• $1500 raised for the building fund of the Theodore Parker Church

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Sponsors:

• JP Seafood Cafe
• Debra Samuels
• Chris Yoder
• Atlas True Value Hardware, 1871 Centre Street, West Roxbury
• Sun Lee, Lic. Acupuncturist, West Roxbury, 617-327-1812
• Haley House
• City Feed And Supply
• H-Mart of Burlington MA
• Korean Garden Restaurant
• Buk Kyung II Restaurant of Allston, MA
• boston localvores

Greater Boston Kimchi Festival On The Radio

Ike Sriskandarajah did this cool piece for Living on Earth:

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00013&segmentID=8

Kimchi Press: Stuff Boston magazine

Stuff Boston is a variety magazine serving the Boston area.

Award-winning food writer Louisa Kasdon penned this excellent and hilarious article:

http://stuffboston.com/feed/archive/2010/03/22/kiss-my-kimchi.aspx

An excerpt:

The kimchi craze is the kind of thing that makes food writing addictive: there is no greater fun than reporting on the passion of zealots with highly developed palates.

Kimchi Press: bostonist.com

bostonist is "a website about Boston and everything that happens in it". This great post by Rick Sawyer appeared a few weeks ago, and somehow we missed it.

The headline was Get Fermenting: The Greater Boston Kimchi Festival Wants Your Cabbage.

And the funniest line: "…the largest kimchi festival this Bostonist has ever heard of." Hah! Awesome.

http://bostonist.com/2010/03/03/get_fermenting_the_greater_boston_k.php

Kimchi Festival In The News: Boston Globe

With a week and a half to go before the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival, the Boston Globe have covered it, on page 10 of the Food section (and also on their web site). Click here to see their article, A spicy cabbage pitch!

For full details on the Kimchi Festival, including how to enter your kimchi in the contest and how to get an early-bird discount, go to http://kimchi.lactoferment.com.

Kimchi Festival In The News At BostonKorea.com

An article at BostonKorea.com about the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival (or at least I hope that's what it's about...):

http://bostonkorea.com/news.php?code=&mode=view&num=8802

UPDATE: Click below for English (from the print edition):

Kimchi Festival IN THE NEWS AGAIN! (boston.com)

In Dishing, her regular blog on boston.com, Boston Globe food reporter Devra First writes about the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival:

Kimchi: the new cupcake? So posit the folks behind the upcoming Greater Boston Kimchi Festival. Kimchi is everywhere these days, though perhaps not quite as ubiquitous as cupcakes, and I say yay. For the fermented spicy cabbage that is a mainstay of the Korean diet is one of my favorite foods…

For her full blog, click here:

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/dishing/2010/01/kimchi_the_new_1.html

Greater Boston Kimchi Festival details:

Date and time: March 21, 2010, 3PM-7PM
Location: Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church, Boston
Press inquiries: kimchi-press@lactoferment.com
For more information: kimchi-info@lactoferment.com
Web: http://kimchi.lactoferment.com/

Greater Boston Kimchi Festival IN THE NEWS

The West Roxbury - Roslindale Bulletin has published an article about the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival and Workshop. Click on the images below to see the article. Event info follows.

January 24, 2010, 1PM-3PM: Kimchi Workshop
March 21, 2010, 3PM-7PM: Greater Boston Kimchi Festival
Location: Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church, Boston.
Press inquiries: kimchi-press@lactoferment.com

Registration for workshop & other inquiries: kimchi-info@lactoferment.com
Web: http://kimchi.lactoferment.com/