Dolsot

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 25, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> Dolsot (also spelled "dol sot") is in the Seattle Times today (http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020208625_sarah25xml.html). It's the "stone" bowl that bibimbap is sometimes served in. The dolsot gives the rice that semi-crunchy texture like half-burned macaroni in a casserole.
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> Dolsot isn't in Wiktionary, the OED or the AHD. Wikipedia gives the Korean spelling as 돌솥 under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibimbap.
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> The earliest I see the word in Google Books is 1992 (http://books.google.com/books?id=6xy0AAAAIAAJ&q=%22dolsot%22&dq=%22dolsot%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gtoCUZ7wOIaM0QH1voCoBQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw) as part of the name of a restaurant. Surely the term would have been on their menus as well as the menus of other restaurants by that date.
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> The next appearance on Google Books is 1996 in the phrase "dolsot bi bim bap" (http://books.google.com/books?id=yLyuG2RqlooC&q=%22dolsot%22&dq=%22dolsot%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CNsCUZn-DYrV0gHp9oCgBg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA).
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> The Internet has two pages from 1994:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/11/garden/a-treasure-hunt-for-korean-foods.html?pagewanted=2 (dolsot)
> http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-15/restaurants/second-helpings/full/ (dol sot)
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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I haven't encountered that useful and authentic sounding term.  Around these parts the distinction is between "bibimbap" and "stone pot bibimbap", so presumably the latter = dolsot bibimbap.

LH

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