Charye is a Korean ancestor memorial service performed on holidays, in this case, the new year. As I connect more and more with my Korean heritage, especially through food, art, and folk practices, I thought it essential to do this ritual. It was a lot of work preparing all the food, but a worthy endeavor to pay respect to those who came before.
Pictured: front left row from top (Korean pear, yakgwa, dried persimmon, mandarin oranges, Ruby Snap cookie segments, honeycrisp apple, dried jujubes), middle row from top (dried squid, stir-fried gamja-jorim, japchae, galbi-jjim, cabbage and radish kimchi), right row from top (bori-cha, bean sprouts, rice, duk-guk, sweet sticky rice, bindaetteok, bori-cha, rice, duk-guk).