Dolsot

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

Korean place down the road from my office (called Wasabi--go figure) features dolsot of various kinds. 

Geoffrey S. Nathan 
Faculty Liaison, C&IT 
and Professor, Linguistics Program 
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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:39:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Dolsot

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> 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.
> >
> > Dolsot isn't in Wiktionary, the OED or the AHD. Wikipedia gives the
> > Korean spelling as 돌솥 under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibimbap.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > The Internet has two pages from 1994:
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > 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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