Korea
This term describes the shared beliefs, values, customs, and behaviors of a group that are passed down through generations.
What is Culture?
Foods linked to Kentucky history and identity, such as Hot Brown, spoonbread, burgoo, barbecue, Derby Pie, and beer cheese.
What is Kentucky Heritage Food?
Adopting parts of a new culture while maintaining parts of one’s original culture.
What is Integration?
A traditional health perspective that emphasizes balance, body constitution, and daily practices including food and herbs.
What is Oriental Medicine?
"Thank you" in Korean.
What is gam-sa-ham-ni-da?
This term describes the practical and cultural system of food production, preservation, preparation, consumption, and nutrition.
What is Foodways?
Trade by sea that moved ingredients, techniques, and food ideas between regions.
What is Maritime Trade?
The ability to function effectively in both the original culture and a new culture.
What is Biculturalism?
Exclusion from access to and participation in dominant culture.
What is Cultural Marginalization?
Name of the university where we had classes in Daegu.
What is Kyungpook National University?
The name of the traditional market you visited in Daegu.
What is Seomun Market?
Mutual sharing of cultural elements, ideas, and practices between groups.
The process of adapting to a new culture while retaining parts of the original culture.
What is Cultural Acculturation?
The idea that all people should have fair access to healthy, culturally appropriate food.
What is Food Justice?
Small side dishes served with Korean meals, often shared by people at the table.
What is Banchan?
The name of the Korean traditional costume.
What is Hanbok?
A coarse salt traditionally used in the koshering process to draw blood from meat; it is usually non-iodized.
What is Kosher Salt?
Adopting certain norms, values, or behaviors of a new culture while keeping original traditions.
What is Adaptation?
An area where people have limited access to a variety of healthful and affordable foods.
What is Food Desert?
This Korean communal practice of preparing large quantities of kimchi for winter reflects seasonality, community, preservation, and identity.
What is Kimjang?
Traditional foods, recipes, ingredients, and agricultural practices passed through generations.
What is Food Heritage?
A preservation and flavor-development process in which microorganisms transform food components.
What is Fermentation?
Adopting the dominant culture in a way that may weaken or replace original cultural identity.
What is Assimilation?
A term emphasizing that unequal food access is shaped by social, economic, and political systems.
What is Food Apartheid?
Name of the Korean food that uses a whole chicken and ginseng in a hot soup to restore energy.
What is Samgyetang?