Question:“On food to offer a visitor”
On food to offer a visitor
The dish to offer a stranger is not the one you love most. It is the one they can eat without explanation. Put the spicy dishes on the second table.
Three descend. Tell them one thing about how to eat it, and leave the rest to their hands.
- BibimbapEvery color of this land in a single bowl.
- BulgogiSweet and tender, refused by no tongue from any country.
- Samgyetang, whole chicken ginseng soupWhoever receives a whole chicken knows they have been honored.
Herodotus, arriving in a foreign land, wrote down first what its people ate.