Thank you for reading my thoughts here. I believe food is either healing or poison to our bodies. Using ingredients naturally occurring, grown in and harvested from healthy environment with minimal processing and alternation is important. Purity and wholeness are important to me.
If it's good for the body, I learn to cook any dish from any ethnicity and source authentic ingredients, which I believe are key to preserving taste, experience, and goodness as intended by its tradition.
My mom used Kadoya brand for sesame oil. She comes from a lineage of restauranteurs in Korean cuisine. I tried a couple of other brands 20 some years ago when I thought oil is oil.
That was the last time I strayed from Kadoya when it comes to sesame oil. The taste difference was night and day: balance in depth, breadth, and a sense of wholeness and comfort in Kadoya sesame oil versus noticeable bitter and burnt tastes.
I'd liken it to difference between living a satisfying and contented life to one haggard by bitterness and resentment.
Value: in most Asian stores, the same bottle costs $8. At Walmart, less than half. This is the lowest price I found.
Hope you found this helpful.
