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October 31, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAxQCC8bVxI&feature=player_embedded I spent the weekend with my good friend Naoko in her cabin in the...
Tuna Head at Tsukiji Fish Market
October 28, 2011
Look at this tuna head! It was fucking HUGE--I could easily fit my own head...
October 27, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AwoE-59pMqc The OPENharvest group visited the Hachisu residence in Kodama-gun in Saitama Prefecture. We enjoyed...
Rice Harvesting in Niigata
October 24, 2011
At 5am on a Thursday morning, groggy and jetlagged, 20 of us OPENharvest participants, with...
Packaging Whore: Wrapper's Delight
June 1, 2011
Oh great, here we go again. Another blog post about Japanese food packaging design. But...
Japanify: Kombu Tsukudani
May 12, 2011
I am home in Berkeley after taking a week-long road trip through the American southwest...
Japanify: Mottainai Obake ("Don't Waste" Ghosts)
March 24, 2011
For a few days after the quake hit in Sendai, public television networks in Japan...
Tokyo JUNKtion: After the Quake (The Supermarket Edition)
March 17, 2011
These photos my friends in Tokyo sent me gave me a glimpse of what is...
Japanify: Tsukudani (Condiment Crack)
February 17, 2011
Mottainai is said in Japan when something perfectly usable is abandoned or sent to the...
Japanify: Tokutei Meishoshu (Premium Sake)
February 3, 2011
I am excited to continue with Part Two of my sake series this week on...
Japanify: Futsushu vs. Tokutei Meishoshu (Ordinary vs. Premium Sake)
January 27, 2011
I had many opportunities during my first six months living in Japan to get really...
ReCPY: The Yamahomo Knife from Aritsugu Shop (Kyoto)
January 25, 2011
Since seeing Michael Romano's collections of Japanese knives (many were around $1,000, but some were...