{"id":1915,"date":"2005-01-31T21:38:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T02:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2005-01-31T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T02:43:19","slug":"seaweed-fermented-cabbage-the-spirit-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/01\/seaweed-fermented-cabbage-the-spirit-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed, Fermented Cabbage &#038; the Spirit of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find that in those dark times of the soul when I need peace and a nearness to God, I turn to seaweed and fermented cabbage.<!--more-->  More precisely, I turn to kimchee and doll-kim.  With rice.  They say that smell is the sense most powerfully associated with memory, and presumeably &#8220;they&#8221; know what they are talking about.  Smell is closely linked to taste, and I suspect that this is what makes kimchee, kim and rice my comfort food of choice.  It links me back to my mission &#8212; in Korea, of course &#8212; and the sense of working in God&#8217;s presence that I had then.  For me kimchee will always be God&#8217;s food, the food of the Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up my father had a complex moral cosmology of food.  It was extremely important that one test and enjoy lots of &#8220;ethnic&#8221; foods.  This was a way of combating narrow-mindedness, Western elitism, racism, and all the rest.  The rejection of other cuisines was a kind of moral failure.  God, it was understood, seasoned mainly with herbs and spices, rather than the sugar and salt of Wasatch-front cuisine.  My wife (who enjoys ethnic food) still looks back in mortification on the time shortly after we first met when she told my father that her favorite food was a good steak.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that my father&#8217;s training my have as much as smell and memory to do with my strong association of spirituality and kimchee.  I wonder if anyone else has religious relationships with food&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find that in those dark times of the soul when I need peace and a nearness to God, I turn to seaweed and fermented cabbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}