Text and Artwork by katherine sandoz
Mokpo in South Jeolla province is our educator and hostess’ first home. When Ho Shim Shaw picks up her knife to accomplish the tour de force of preparing a Korean feast, she thinks only of cutting “perfectly” for her guests. The varicolored and multi-textured meal and her stories open eyes (and mouths) to the some of the tastes, sounds and sites of a distant land that is somehow much more familiar than imagined.
Might this be the true power of lovingly prepared meals and cheerful hospitality?
mokpo, south jeolla province, south korea
9” x 6”
acrylic on index
october 2012
original Salted and Styled artwork available here
