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Archive for August, 2007

第一 Japanese Peach-Sake Jam
First, a word about Japanese peaches 白桃 (hakutō): amazing. They are typically about the size of my fist, with pure wine-white flesh and bright pink skin. They are sweeter and juicier than any other peach you may ever taste; eating one usually results in pure ecstasy, accompanied by a vast pool of [...]

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The Insular Summer 島国根性の夏

I really like their pants.

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Most of the time, when I tell Japanese people what state I’m from, they look at me with a cocked head or a confused squint. To explain, I usually say that Wisconsin is like the Hokkaido of America: just about as north as the country gets, aggressively cold in the winter, full of relatively unspoiled [...]

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But it isn’t just Sapporo Beer.
I am a beer geek. I’ve discussed this is previous posts, occasionally at length. When I travel, I tend to plan my itineraries around trips to breweries and bottle shops, meticulously plotting out marathon bar crawls just to find that Rodenbach on tap, that Yona Yona on cask, or any [...]

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