By Rachel on January 15, 2008
Hard candy doesn’t really wow me; it’s a lump of flavored sugar that’s only function is to dissolve. Oh so not impressive. I like my candy with texture and personality, not some lazy piece of sucrose. However, if hard candy meets me halfway in terms of being more than a slightly [...]
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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 16, 2007
November kicks off the Eating Season with the biggest food-related holiday of the year: Thanksgiving. In honor of that belly busting, buckle-loosening, girth-widening day, I thought we could talk food, Japanese food that is.
Unlike many popular Western foods, traditional Japanese foods are low in fat, high in vegetable content, and sans dairy. This [...]
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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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By Rachel on October 9, 2007
We thought we’d try something a little different with today’s Japanese recipe. We figured that maybe some of you would like to see what goes into actually making a recipe instead of just reading about it. So David got behind the camera and I got in front of the stove and together we shot [...]
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