Just cant resist including this photo of delicious Eizo venison from LEffervescence.Six months is a long time. But when true friends get together again after a lengthy separation, it feels as though ...
Two days before our Gochiso Family and Friends Garden Party last month, the weather was cold, wet, and miserable, quite out of character for the unseasonably mild autumn we’d been enjoying. Needless ...
October marked the start of this year’s sake brewing season, and, despite the destruction wrought by the March 11 disasters in northeastern Japan, sake makers in Tohoku are back in business. More tha...
Sake, as the saying goes, has the power of a hundred medicines. But Atsuhide Kato, the 11th generation head of Kato Kichibee Shoten, whose brewery produces Born sake in Fukui prefecture, maintains th...
My father’s face wore a look of cautious concern. “Let me just ask you this: Are you sure that he can handle it?” I knew what this was about. My mother was making my favorite childhood dish — rice st...
Hiroko Yokosawa is a petite woman in her mid-30s, with large, inquisitive eyes, soft features, and cropped brown hair that falls in waves around her ears. With her demure bearing and erect posture, s...
The premise was tinged with the absurdity of a Dadaist riddle and the impossibility of a Zen koan: How can a chef cook without a kitchen?We found ourselves in the unenviable position of having to con...
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