Pickling Pots

Pickling Pots
Originally uploaded by TJF.

From right to left: my host mother, Mrs. Lee, me, Saegyung's mother (a sweet woman with a sweet kid about Seo Young's age) and (they have a word for this in Korean) Saegyung's father's brother's brother-in-law's wife. This was taken in front of a large collection of clay pots used to pickle maesil (the plum that results from the maewha). These are special clay pots that 'breathe' and are used to pickle kimchi and were used to store food like soy sauce before refrigeration came to be.