Fall is a season that whets the appetite wherever you go, with your appetite growing stronger than ever. Let’s go for a meal with a grandmother that nourishes the soul~
An autumn gastronomic journey where you can taste a meal magically prepared with seasonal ingredients while listening to the stories of the old women who have stayed in one place for a long time to protect the village. As time goes by, the aged landscapes turn into long-term experience and wisdom, giving you a deeper and stronger taste of life.
This week (September 30th – October 4th), the 5-part episode ‘Will Grandma Eat’ will be broadcast on EBS 1TV’s current affairs and culture program.
Grandmother Kim Chae-ok runs a bed and breakfast alone in a 200-year-old silver grass house and serves a warm meal to those who visit Jiri Mountain trail. The eldest son, Sang-Gon Sang, who retired at the age of over 80 and was feeling exhausted, returned home after 40 years!
Last spring, he came down to help with fern farming, but was worried about his mother, who had a hard time carrying heavy loads with her bent back, so he sat down that day.
His son, Sang-gon, said that looking at his elderly mother, he wanted her to work less now, but he was unable to break his mother’s stubbornness as she was a hard worker by nature. Since living in the same house for the first time in 40 years, there are times when we bicker and fight.
The food I always missed from my mom is delicious even with just soybean paste! I want to remain by my side and protect the silver grass house where my mother lived.
Grandma Chae-ok’s elementary school classmates came to the silver grass house. Grandma Chae-ok says her son is a scholar who has only ever worked and is not good at farming or even catching chickens, so she has to do it herself to be satisfied. I catch local chicken myself and prepare the table.
The old kitchen, with traces of time intact, is filled with the sound of golden pancakes being fried and the busy movements of an old woman busy preparing radish radish and seasoning bracken. If I could take it with me, I would like to live in the silver grass house in the afterlife, and I will meet the rustic but heartfelt life meal of grandmother Chae-ok, who wants to prepare a meal for those who come to visit her until the day she dies.
Reporter Park Yu-mi Photo = EBS Korea Travel
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2024-10-02 14:56:32