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Tag Archives: food
Book Announcement: Oishii: The History of Sushi
Oishii: The History of Sushi Eric C. Rath Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foodsâbut they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food history, food studies, history, Japanese food, sashimi, sushi
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Fun Link Friday: Edible Toast Masterpieces of Japanese Art
In the past we’ve shown a variety of tasty pieces of art for Fun Link Fridays, typically of the bento variety. But what if toast was your literal canvas? Last month My Modern Met featured a piece on Japanese designer … Continue reading
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Tagged art, food, food culture, fun link friday, Japanese art
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Fun Link Friday: Food-inspired inks đ
Just a quickie Fun Link Friday today, folks. In keeping with the love of food-inspired crafts from Japan, I was fascinated to come across SoraNews24’s recent exploration of stationery based on local foods of Nagasaki. The one that particularly caught … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art supplies, food, fun link friday, ink, Japan, Japanese stationery, stationery
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Fun Link Friday: Super-sized Sushi đŁ
Are you a hungry sushi enthusiast? Are you ready to tackle an 11 pound “Generous Roll”? Check out our quickie fun link Friday today, a video by Great Big Story on Hiromu Inagaki, who makes massive (and tiny!) sushi! Click … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food culture, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese food, sushi
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Fun Link Friday: Move over, gingerbread house, here’s a sweets sailboat
While many of us may be honing our skills for seasonal gingerbread house competitions, none of us can hold a candle to the students of the recently opened Noda Kamada Gakuen vocational high school in Yokohama, who created a MASSIVE … Continue reading
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Tagged cookies, culinary school, food, food culture, Japan, sweets
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Fun Link Friday: Food Waste Tableware
Anyone who has the pleasure of working with me knows I take food waste and garbage sorting Very Seriously. I found this Design Boom article on Japanese designer Kosuke Araki, who creates series of tableware and vessels using daily food waste with the intention to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Design, food, food waste, Japan, Japanese culture, recycling
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Fun Link Friday: Cookie Masterpieces of Japan
Ever attempted to make a beautiful holiday cookie to discover it just didn’t turn out to be much more than a blob with sprinkles? Never fear, this week’s quickie Fun Link Friday introduces the masterful cookie decorating skills of Chihiro Ogura, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cookies, food, food culture, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese culture
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Fun Link Friday: The Secrets of Soy Sauce
Though it can be found in various forms across Asia, soy sauce is easily one of the most iconic elements of Japanese cooking. With a long and diverse history, some families have maintained secret recipes for hundreds of years and regional variations bring … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food culture, fun link friday, history, Japan, soy sauce
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Fun Link Friday: Sushi donuts?
Now that you’ve endured or enjoyed some matcha beer, here comes another innovation on the traditional… sushi donuts? The internet is having a time with this new interpretation of a traditional favorite, and frankly, I’m just as unsure how I … Continue reading
Fun Link Friday: Matcha… beer?
Like it or not, if you spend enough time in Japan, you’ll probably develop a taste for matcha/maccha æčè¶ (green tea). I know I didn’t like tea at all (still don’t like coffee!) but somewhere along the lines it grew … Continue reading