By Rachel on February 12, 2008
Last year, I posted a brief write-up of Valentine’s Day in Japan. To refresh our memories:
On Valentine’s Day in Japan, the women give all the men in their lives chocolate (choco- ãƒãƒ§ã‚³). If the recipient is a co-worker, or someone the woman sees casually, she gives him giri choco (obligation chocolate). [...]
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By Rachel on January 29, 2008
When it gets cold, we all like to munch on comfort foods in the warmth of our cozy abodes. Many comforting foods happen to be cooked in one pot, making them easy and delicious. One simple Japanese comfort food is oden. Oden is a popular winter Japanese hot pot stew, with regional ingredients [...]
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By Rachel on January 17, 2008
It’s not much of a secret that I love Japanese sweets, aka wagashi. In my free time, I go on the .jp and search out new wagashi to research and try. I spend hours pouring over websites and trying my hand at translating katakana.
The only thing that really gets me through the massive [...]
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By Rachel on December 26, 2007
New Year’s is a major holiday in Japan and has been for centuries. Shogatsu, as the Japanese New Year’s is known, retains many traditions from former times which are still alive today and a fixture in modern New Year’s happenings. These traditions can be small, intimate ceremonies practiced with the family or in private. [...]
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By Rachel on December 17, 2007
In the West, who would ever believe that anything as common as beans could ever become anything more than kick-ass burritos and tasty tail-gate chili? Beans have gotten a bad rap through the years as being poor man’s food and the “musical fruit”. Derisive songs have been sung mocking the bloating attributes of these tiny [...]
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By Rachel on December 3, 2007
Crackers as a snack food can be so very blah. Sembei, Japanese rice crackers, while having more variety than their Western counterparts, still taste amazingly similar when you get down to it, and also fall prey to being blasé.
There are several varieties of Japanese rice crackers, which have have been explained before, but the [...]
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By Rachel on November 15, 2007
Harvest moons are one of the many wonderful fall occurrences which highlight the beauty of the season. The bright full moon, tinted a dusky yellow, seems to be closer, fuller, and more splendid in the autumn months than at any other time. Mystery seems to hang in the air when there’s a [...]
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By Rachel on November 13, 2007
Thanks to sushi bars, Americans are becoming more familiar with a few Japanese cuisine options and foodstuffs. But there’s more to Japanese food than sushi, tempura and miso, so very much more. Yet, even with sushi as a primer, Japanese food still emits an aura of simplicity and elegance; which simultaneously fascinates [...]
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