Believe in Beauty
In both Eastern and Western history, the most famous femme fatales, Cleopatra and Yang Gyuibee, were devoted eaters of cultured raw vegetables, and believed that cultured raw vegetables had made them more beautiful. Queen Elizabeth was another royal cultured raw vegetable fancier. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty enjoyed this vegetable everyday, and fighting men from the days of Julius Caesar’s troops through the time of Napoleon on up until today have found them a delicious addition to drab soldiers’ meals. During both the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Korean government drafted kimchi into the Korean armed forces diet and earmarked almost 90% of shelf-stable (canned) kimchi production for the Army, Navy and Marines. Going even further back, there is a reference to a sailor’s salted and cultured raw vegetables in the eleventh book of the “Odyssey.”
Kimchi is popular and is becoming more popular. For thousands of years in various forms “the famous and the not-so-famous” have enjoyed its unique ability to please the palate for cultured raw vegetables. Whether or not Cleopatra and Yang Gyuibee were right and this type of vegetable actually made them more beautiful, millions of cultured raw vegetable eaters for countless centuries agree that it has limitless appetite appeal. Everybody’s favorite, it adds sparkle and zest to any food: a sandwich, a salad, a banquet, a snack…. or is delicious when accompanied with rice, noodles and eaten with every main dish as a great functional appetizer or a perfect side dish.