Suggestion: If you do make your own kimchi (and you shouldn't have to if you live in a large city; Toronto, for example, has a huge Korean neighborhood and Asian supermarkets everywhere) please consider the other residents and do as the Koreans do...

USE A SEPARATE REFRIGERATOR!

No, I'm not kidding. In Korea they sell 'kimchi fridges' especially for storing the pickly, spicy, effluvial stuff - because the smell is impossible to get out of the interior of a regular fridge and permeates everything else. Ever broken open a 'fresh' egg into a frying pan only to smell chilis and fermented cabbage? Quite a breakfast experience...

Of course, if you live out in the country you don't need a fridge at all - you can make your own kimchi garden: huge clay pots with heavy overhanging lids in which the stuff is traditionally stored to age over the winter. Often spotted on Asian balconies in built-up areas...


I wonder if it would do anything for regular flu (she says, hacking and sniffling)?