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Osechi (New Year's Feast): The Next Generation
I wasn't able to make it back to Japan to spend New Year's Day with my family, since I'm still not fully up to the enduring the rigors of a long flight by myself and The Guy is too busy with work to go...
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Nanohana in the Japan Times, plus the "Oborozukiyo" Hazy Spring Moon...
This month's Japanese Kitchen column in the Japan Times is about nanohana, a quintessential early spring vegetable. It's actually the young, tender shoots of the rapeseed plant, which has gotten a name...
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Fishy interlude: An amazingly detailed model of a Tsukiji market maguro...
Since we are in the middle of the Fish section of Japanese Cooking 101, here's an interesting story about a plastic model of...a fish. Sounds weird, you say? Well you have to see this to believe it....
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Rubber ducks in Osaka
Florentijn Hofman is a Dutch artist who has made a name for himself for his playful, big installations. He's most famous for his gigantic rubber ducks. The rubber ducks have invaded several cities...
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Masataka Taketsuru, The Father of Japanese Whiskey And His Two Loves
Whiskey first became widely available in Japan (least amongst the wealthy) in the 19th century, mostly in and after the 1870s, although it seems to have been introduced in the 1850s. Whiskey distilling...
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