I do actually know how to spell Lebovitz, but somehow didn’t when I labelled this jar. My first run at kimchi… After reading many peoples’ renditions, I followed the recipe from David Lebovitz’s excellent blog. I added fish sauce, and used no gochujang.
Now we wait for it to ferment a little…
I found it! Gochugaru, Korean chili powder; a friend directed me to a small Korean grocery store downtown, and I went there today. The only gochujang (Korean chili paste) that they carried contained corn syrup and some unpronounceables, but the woman at the check out assured me that I could skip it and still make good kimchi.