Or, “A Study in Failing to Photograph Anything Properly.” Part 1 is here, with considerably better photos. I really shouldn’t have promised this part 2 prior to checking my camera, but since I mentioned it, here’s a run-down and some cell phone photos!
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“Deeply Ingrained Advantages”: American Media Discovers Kyûshoku
Can Japan solve America’s food identity crisis? Japan’s relatively low rates of obesity have caught the eye of the American news media, particularly in light of our own new government controls on junk food and measures intended to prevent childhood obesity. In January, The Washington Post ran the article “On Japan’s school lunch menu: A…
Kitchen Library: What I Ate on New Year’s Break, Part 1
We stayed local with friends for the New Year, and after we exhausted our list of our favorite cafes one by one as they closed for the holidays, we holed up in the apartment and cooked up a storm.
Kitchen Library – What I Read on New Year’s Break
I caught up on a lot of reading over the holidays, so I’m going to do a separate post on what I cooked and ate. In this edition of Kitchen Library: cupcakes in Tokyo, craft brewing designations, a review of one of Kirin’s “low-malt” drinks, cherpumple, and more!
Best of 2012
Happy New Year, everyone! 明けましておめでとうございます！ Since I bought my own domain name, I don’t get WordPress’s year-end stats for my site anymore, so I thought I would round up some of my most popular posts and my goals for next year as a 年末年始 (new year’s holidays; lit. year-end-year-beginning) exercise.
Update: Spiced Persimmon Cake
I finally got some decent photos of the persimmon cake, so I’ve updated the pictures on the recipe page (bonus one below).
Kitchen Library – 2012.12.20
Celebrating the holidays with geeky food, fresh cilantro, entirely too much coffee, and never-ending nabe!
Kitchen Library 2012.12.13
Taiwanese food, women and alcohol, colonial Christmas cake, all the cauliflower, and some jam-making updates this week:
Kitchen Library – 2012.11.26
Thanksgiving Part 2 (at a friend’s house) went smashingly! I made Naturally Ella‘s Twice-Baked Butternut Squash (with quinoa and Gorgonzola) as the vegetarian main dish. With the exception of the turkey, which was expertly cooked by the hosts, all the other dishes were vegetarian: mac & cheese made with Cougar Cheese, a sharp canned cheese…
The Word of the Day is Spatchcock: Thanksgiving 2012
“I’m going to spatchcock the turkey.” “Excuse me?” “If I spatchcock the turkey–WHY ARE YOU BLUSHING?” “So, I’ve decided to spatchcock the turkey.” “Is that some sort of fandom thing about Benedict Cumberbatch?” Despite its unfortunate name, spatchcocking is simply a way of butterflying a turkey so it will cook faster; it does not,…
What I Ate: Chicago
I haven’t had a fever in so long that I’ve forgotten what it’s like to feel like my brain is leaking out of my ears. While I’m holed up on the couch with obscene amounts of tea and a Sherlock marathon, I thought you all might like to see a handful of food photos of…
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