Pine nuts

Korean cooking ingredients:

Korean: 잣
Romanized Korean: jot
Wikipedia entry for this ingredient

It’s from a special kind of Korean pine tree.

Posted Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 5:42 pm

One Response to “Pine nuts”:

Gordon:

Interesting that just like “Korean grapes”, these come from a special “Korean pine tree”.

I grew up eating these and “Korean Grapes”. (I grew up in New Mexico and Texas.) I don’t think there is anything particularly Korean about them. Pine nuts, aka piñon, do come from a pine tree. But I’m pretty sure that Costco is not importing them from Korea (but hey, I could be wrong….I haven’t read the package to see if they list the origin of their product.) They are native to North America and Europe as well as Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinon_nut

Just had to say something since all my Korean friends keep saying “Here, want some Korean Grapes?” LOL But I do really love both the “Korean Grapes” and piñon. And Korean food is my favorite. I can only cook KimChi Chigae right now, so I’ll be watching your vids to see if I can learn some more.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

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