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Category: Holidays
Bi Pride Birthday Cake
In which my partner is 30 and getting bi.
2017 Gingerbread Village: Historic and Future Seattle
Gingerbread sculpture, fighting food insecurity, and Hulu commercials.
Soft Pumpkin Cookies
Decolonize Thanksgiving history and support queer youth. Oh, and cookies.
Star Wars Gingerbread
Silly name aside, if you’re a geek in Seattle this holiday season, you must check out the Sheraton Hotel’s annual (and free) gingerbread village “May the Holidays Be With You.” That’s right, Star Wars-themed gingerbread to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Here’s some photos I took last weekend!
Halloween in Japan 2015: Beverages
The part of me that desperately missed Halloween and pumpkin food in Japan when I was there in the early ’10s is very pleased, but 2015!me is a little alarmed by how quickly it happened, if 10 years is “quick.” Globalization is a factor, of course, but just as much at work is Japan’s marketing of seasonal goods.
Halloween in Japan 2015: All The Bakeries
In which every bakery I encountered in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Kagoshima was decked out for Halloween. Manneken, Hirakata
Halloween in Japan (2015): Krispy Kreme’s “Mad for Monsters” Campaign
Krispy Kreme’s “Mad for Monsters” campaign features four types of doughnuts:
Halloween Food in Japan (2015): Mister Donut Pon de Shu
Both Mister Donuts and Krispy Kreme Japan are doing Halloween campaigns this year, and because I love you all so much, I ate a ridiculous amount of doughnuts one morning for science.
Halloween Food in Japan: Family Mart
What a perfect time to come to Japan and do some food anthropology!
2014 Pumpkin Beer Masterlist
This year’s winner: Elysian’s Punkuccino. I was a little skeptical of a coffee-chocolate-pumpkin beer, but the flavors are perfectly balanced–a molasses-malt head, rich pumpkin, coffee, and stout with a little sweetness. I got to try a lot of these at the Great Pumpkin Beer Festival–highly recommend the event. Special thanks to my family in…
Marketing Halloween in Japan: Krispy Skremes
Today’s post is about shifts in marketing: which brands continue to produce Halloween-themed goods/advertising and which don’t. Also doughnuts. Mister Donut decided to go with fall-themed cronuts this year: crushed chestnut whip, apple-custard pie, and cherry-cream pie. Meanwhile, Krispy Kreme Japan went full-out Halloween with “Krispy Skremes,” and they are not messing around:
