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When I heard that the Ichinoseki area is called “the home of mochi“, I thought of New Year’s Day. Or rather, I should say New Year’s Eve when my family geared up for massive production of mochi for the whole family and extended family at the holiday. We literally spent the entire day making so [...]

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One rainy afternoon in June, I was catching the Enoden near Fujisawa on the way back from a meeting. Looking at the beautiful posters saturated with colors all around the station promoting the ajisai or hydrangea season, I thought to stop by Kamakura rather than going straight back to Fujisawa. From Gokurakuji, I took a [...]

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Late April, I was having wine with Melinda at this really nice Italian wine bar near Aoyama. Wine? Not sake? You might ask. I had my night off as a sake geek and Melinda put her wine writer hat on. As we were sipping red wine at this comfortably lit up sort of tony dark [...]

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I admire those people who can update their blog while they are on the road. Since mid March, we were on the road visiting friends and family in the US. Te-chan is back in Japan, and I am almost back on track with more of “a regular schedule” in the Bay Area while trying to [...]

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Sorry people. I just realized that the RSS feed has been broken for a while. I hope I’ll have that fixed soon. I apologize if you get any double entries for posts or podcasts through RSS.

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Time to start casting Tokyo food out to the Internet masses. Before telling you all about the many excellent dining, drinking, gourmandizing, and other consumption opportunities I face on a daily basis around the city, I better start with tonight’s dinner—leftovers.
Mmmm, but good leftovers.
Etsuko had prepared salmon marinee, crabcakes, and roast rack of lamb with [...]

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