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

Greater Boston Kimchi Festival Sponsors

Huge thanks to the sponsors and supporters of the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival, who donated prizes and/or services. Their donations helped make the Festival possible.

• 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 Winners

The First Annual Greater Boston Kimchi Festival has concluded!

Twenty-one kimchis entered the contest, and as I said during the awards ceremony, I would have been psyched to have had any of them on my dinner plate next to my favorite barbequed something. I was thrilled with the event.

Here are the award-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

Thank you again to everyone who entered and everyone who attended.

A HUGE thank-you to the community of the Theodore Parker Church, who lent their space, their tables, and most of all, their time and energy to this event. Without their work, the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival would truly never have happened.
 
I would also like to acknowledge the other organizers, Cora Roelofs, Steve Greene, and Phil Paik of JP Seafood. It was a fantastic experience working with such passionate, like-minded people to help realize our vision of the Greater Boston Kimchi Festival.