Posted in Food, Restaurants, Travel on Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The food geek universe has recently been abuzz with the news that Tokyo has more Michelin stars than any city in the world, including Paris. In fact, it has twice as many as Paris. I couldn’t really offer anything beyond mere conjecture as to how this happened, as the publishers of the Michelin Guide are [...]
Posted in Drink, Food, History, Restaurants, Travel on Thursday, November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Sweet potatoes were brought to Satsuma in 17th century. Kagoshima is now the kingdom of Satsuma-imo.
(Kagoshima cookie wrapper)
I live in Kyushu, the southernmost major island of the Japanese archipelago. It lies a comfortable distance away from the locus of metropolitan Kantō-Kansai hegemony, and Japanese travel companies generally promote Kyushu as rural and relaxing, quirky, [...]
Posted in Food, Restaurants, Travel on Monday, August 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
