Dolsot

[Benjamin Barrett]

Hahaha.

I generally order Korean food when I go to "Japanese" restaurants with such names.

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Jan 25, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:

> Korean place down the road from my office (called Wasabi--go figure) featur=
> es dolsot of various kinds.=20
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>> On Jan 25, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Dolsot isn't in Wiktionary, the OED or the AHD. Wikipedia gives the
>>> Korean spelling as =EB=8F=8C=EC=86=A5 under http://en.wikipedia.org/wik=
> i/Bibimbap.
>>>
>>> The earliest I see the word in Google Books is 1992
>>> (http://books.google.com/books?id=3D6xy0AAAAIAAJ&q=3D%22dolsot%22&dq=3D=
> %22dolsot%22&hl=3Den&sa=3DX&ei=3DgtoCUZ7wOIaM0QH1voCoBQ&ved=3D0CEcQ6AEwAw)
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The next appearance on Google Books is 1996 in the phrase "dolsot
>>> bi bim bap"
>>> (http://books.google.com/books?id=3DyLyuG2RqlooC&q=3D%22dolsot%22&dq=3D=
> %22dolsot%22&hl=3Den&sa=3DX&ei=3DCNsCUZn-DYrV0gHp9oCgBg&ved=3D0CDkQ6AEwAA).
>>>
>>> The Internet has two pages from 1994:
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/11/garden/a-treasure-hunt-for-korean-foo=
> ds.html?pagewanted=3D2
>>> (dolsot)
>>> http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-15/restaurants/second-helpings/f=
> ull/
>>> (dol sot)
>>>
>>> Benjamin Barrett
>>> Seattle, WA
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> 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 =3D dolsot bibimbap.
>
>> LH

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