Posted in Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Recipes on Thursday, August 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Recipes on Sunday, July 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Soy, if you haven’t heard, is amazing. And few cultures appreciate this fact as fully as Japan, where the unassuming legume has been widely cultivated, processed, cooked, fermented, stewed, steamed, curdled, baked, boiled, and ultimately consumed in myriad forms for hundreds (probably thousands?) of years. In America, I think soy is generally misunderstood. People tend [...]
Posted in Food, Parties, Festivals, and Holidays on Thursday, April 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Note: If you don’t know what miracle fruit is, read this first. And this. And maybe this.
I had originally intended to chronicle my highly anticipated miracle fruit party with a video blog, but unfortunately, I absentmindedly left my camera in my girlfriend’s closet the day before the party… so that’s kind of a bummer, but [...]
