tags: japan: stories and blogs
japan: stories and blogs
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New Year’s, Japanese Style
Trade in your champagne and hors d’oeuvres for sake and mochi.
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Snack Time for Lazarus
This week’s mission: superfood bars and stovetop comfort-food kits.
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Worth the Search
Apricots from Turkey, beef from Japan — are the harder-to-track-down, usually imported ingredients any better than the more widely available versions?
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Fake Accent
Some foods you think are “ethnic” actually aren’t.
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Premium Rice from Japan
It’s expensive, subtle, magnificent, and worth it.
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Pop Open Some Sake
What to drink with our New Year’s mochi menu.
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Summer 2009 Gift Guide
All your warm-weather gifting needs met.
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That Coffee’s Rotten
And other fermentation facts.
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Drinks Around the World
Ring in the New Year 24 times over.
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The Year in Food 2008
What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.
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Dinner Parties on the (Ultra) Cheap
Three multicourse bashes for eight.
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A Japanese Whisky Primer
Highland, Lowland, Hokkaido?
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Drinking and Eating at Vancouver Izakayas
A raucous crawl through Japanese small-plates-and-beer joints.
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Gotta Take This Call
Is it OK to answer your cell phone during dinner?
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Foods You Fight
Tips for eating saucy, messy, and hard-to-handle foods.
