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Japanese recipes for non-Japanese people! Also healthy cooking and a general obsession with food.
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Monday photos: New York cravings

I am in New York, for family reasons. Not the best of circumstances, and I wasnt even sure Id make it given my lousy health these days, but with the kind help of airport staff, I did. So, what does a...

07 feb 12

Setsubun and beans article in the Japan Times and food superstitions

This month’s Japan Times article is about the traditions and superstitions surrounding Setsubun or Risshun, the first day of spring, which is coming up on February 3rd. The focus of the article...

27 jan 12 2 personer gillar detta

Monday photos: This little pig is not a guinea pig

It’s a bit late to be posting these photos, but here they are. In Europe, the pig is considered a lucky symbol of the New Year; in Switzerland for instance people give each other little pepperm...

23 jan 12

A super-efficient Japanese kitchen

Following up on my previous post, here’s more about kitchens - this time about their layout and how they should function. The more time you have to spend in a kitchen, the more important this i...

17 jan 12 3 personer gillar detta

Whats in your kitchen? What is your kitchen?

The subject of ‘kitchens’ has been front and foremost my mind, again. The renovations on the house that I talked about a few months ago haven’t really progressed much beyond what yo...

13 jan 12

Totally off topic: About your small business site or blog, and getting it noticed - what not to do

This has nothing at all to do with Japan, or food, or anything else that I normally write about here. But I am putting it on this site in the off chance that it will be read by regular folk. That is,...

12 jan 12

Monday photos: Winter in Provence

For the past couple of years I’ve been spending most of the winter months in Japan, or somewhere else. Last year I spent most of January in New York and Seattle promoting the Just Bento Cookboo...

09 jan 12 2 personer gillar detta

Mochi and New Years article in the Japan Times, plus a very rich buttery mochi dish

I am a few days late posting this, but this month’s Japan Times article is about the traditions surrounding mochi or omochi, the sticky pounded rice cake. Mochi is both eaten and displayed in t...

04 jan 12

Basics: Japanese soy sauce - all you need to know (and then some)

I’ve written so many articles here on Just Hungry over the eight years of its existence that I’ve forgotten half of them. But one thing I have not really done so far is delve into the sub...

28 dec 11

Monday photos: Santa

My stepfather is an accountant. He looks and acts exactly like an accountant too, most of the time; sober suit, serious demeanor, the glasses, the thinning hairline. He does have a wry sense of humor...

19 dec 11

My fathers favorite Tampopo scene

As I’ve previously mentioned, my father passed away about 3 weeks ago in New York. I did not have the kind of close relationship with my father that I have with my mother (they divorced more th...

15 dec 11 1 person gillar detta

Monday photos: Last chance sushi at Narita Airport Terminal 1

It’s been yet another bad week for me, which is why I haven’t been around - again. Last Friday (December 2nd), I was rehospitalized due to my surgery wound getting badly infected. I know ...

12 dec 11 1 person gillar detta

Monday photos: Kaki (Persimmons)

To me, persimmons or kaki (柿）are the quintessential fall fruit. Although there are by some counts around 1,000 different varieties of persimmons in Japan alone, they can be broadly divided into two t...

28 nov 11

Sweet potatoes (satsumaimo) in the Japan Times, plus an update

This month’s Japan Times article is about sweet potatoes*, which are called satsumaimo in Japanese. Satsumaimo means “potato from Satsuma”, referring to a region of southern Kyushu ...

25 nov 11

Hiatus

Ill be offline for a while (not sure how long), to take care of the health issues. There will be updates over on JustBento hopefully, as The Guy Does Bento series continues, but over here the lights ...

14 nov 11

Accidental butter

From the age of 3 on, or so my mother says, I would always hang around the kitchen asking questions, tilting conatainers to my level, getting underfoot and in everyone’s way. After about age 5,...

07 nov 11 1 person gillar detta

Reader beware.

Long time readers of this site may know that I’ve had some pretty serious health problems in the past couple of years. Last year while undergoing emergency surgery for a horribly infected insec...

02 nov 11

Monday photos: Coffee break in Japan

Japan is so well known for tea - both the beverage itself and the many customs and rituals surrounding it - that many people don’t know that coffee is just as deeply ingrained in daily life as ...

31 okt 11

A recipe for katsudon, plus tonkatsu and pork in The Japan Times

My October article for The Japan Times is all about pork in Japan, with a recipe for tonkatsu. Tonkatsu is arguably the best known pork dish from Japan, though there are plenty of others, since Japan...

28 okt 11 1 person gillar detta

Monday photos: The iPhone 4S as a camera for food bloggers

A good camera or cameras are an important part of a food blogger’s toolkit. Last year when I reviewed my then-new addition to my own camera arsenal, the Panasonic Lumix GF-1, I wrote about the ...

24 okt 11

Spring rolls (harumaki), Japanese style

This recipe for spring rolls, or harumaki (春巻き) as they are call in Japanese, may not be authentic - or at least, not authentically Chinese. It’s authentically Japanese-Chinese, or chuuka - Chi...

20 okt 11

Monday photos: Sanma (pacific saury) is the quintessential fall fish

The kanji characters for sanma, the Japanese name for the pacific saury, are 秋刀魚　- “fall sword fish”. A perfect fit, since the fish do look like small silver swords or knives, and fall is...

17 okt 11

Nanban sauce glazed onions

Whenever I am working in a particular vein or train of thought foodwise, I tend to try to come up with as many riffs and variations as I can. Last year, I spent a few days experimenting with nanban s...

13 okt 11

Monday photos: Miniature baba au rhum, Hotel Le Royal Lyon

The elegant city of Lyon, which is about a 2 1/2 hour drive from our little corner of France, is the ‘big city’ we go to the most for city stuff, where closer towns like Avignon and Aix-e...

10 okt 11

A full review of Supermarket Woman by Juzo Itami

For some weeks now (even before the Big C verdict) I’ve alternated between A days and Z days. A days are when I’ve felt fairly good and chipper and basically normal. Z days are when I hav...

09 okt 11

Monday photos: Yuzu miso container from Yaosan, Kyoto

One of the many reasons that I love Kyoto is the sheer amount of history that you can discover on almost every street and slleyway. Not just the kind of top-down history that you normally encounter, ...

03 okt 11

Monday photo: Sack of bread, Aix-en-Provence

I have hundreds if not thousands of photos of food (and food-related subjects) taken over the years. Most do not warrant a full recipe or such, but may still be worth a story. So I’m hauling th...

26 sep 11

Ancient mushroom models, plus a recipe for oven-steamed mushrooms

In this month’s Japan Times food column, I write about the varieties of mushrooms available in Japan. It has a recipe for mushroom rice in there too - one of my favorite recipes for fall, for w...

23 sep 11

Many-flavored Japanese Kit Kats: not really

I am a major proponent of all kinds of Japanese food, from the highest of haute cuisine from Kyoto ryotei to the humble fare available at a konbini (convenience store). Over the years, Ive tried to i...

21 sep 11

The "Indo Karii" at Nakamuraya in Shinjuku, Tokyo plus the three degrees of curry hotness

One more about curry! Since some of you asked for this, here’s how to figure out which level of hotness a curry mix is, if you get one that has Japanese packaging. You’ll also get to lear...

12 sep 11

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