When did it start? Was it in 2012 when a friend taught Yuli how to make peach jam and they sealed a jar in a water bath for the first time? Or was it when they made their first batch of pickles in 2018? Or maybe it was more like the first time they made pickled green beans and stuck them on a charcuterie board for the family and everyone asked where they came from? 

Did it really start getting going when Yuli made their first, second, or third batch of kimchi, having to buy increasingly bigger and bigger boxes to store it in to keep up with family & friends demands. It was probably the first time Aaron’s Korean uncle, who knows how to make kimchi, had some of Yuli’s and said he liked it. 

Maybe that’s when Marubashi Preserves became the Thing we swore it would never be.