The recipe (red chile flakes, sugar, daikon, dried shrimp, fish sauce, garlic, scallion, ginger, rice flour and, of course, cabbage) is based on the version made by Mr. Yim's mother.
They had company, of course: red cabbage braised in apple cider, roasted cauliflower florets.
There is kimchi among the banchan, of course: Napa cabbage fermented with chili peppers and salt, Korea's national dish.
There is Napa cabbage, of course, among other varieties: cucumber, of late, and ponytail radishes.
"There are fir trees and other trees that have pollen early, and then of course there's skunk cabbage out in the swamps.
That, of course, is why you chose Cabbage Key.
But of course there wasn't any cabbage in the market.
"Leaf miner, beet armyworms, cutworms, wireworms, cabbage loopers and of course nematodes," Smith says, rattling the names off through his gold-capped tooth like buckshot.
There are loving nods to 18th-century pamphlets and magazines, the wallpaper and statuary that you'll find tucked away in odd corners of stately homes, and, of course, Peake and Heath Robinson(Dr Cabbage looks very much like Professor Branestorm, even down to his habit of wearing several pairs of glasses).
We discussed their own jazz rebellion, being uncool in high school, finding paradise at the infamous Marcy Hotel and of course... hurling old pieces of cabbage at douchy club goers.
Corned beef and cabbage was a specialty, of course.
