In 1999 I started a theme camp at Burning Man called Haiku4Beer. The concept is simple enough: you come to the camp and write a three line poem of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and I give you a cold Japanese beer.
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In 1999 I started a theme camp at Burning Man called Haiku4Beer. The concept is simple enough: you come to the camp and write a three line poem of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and I give you a cold Japanese beer.
December 06, 2000 in General | Permalink | Comments (0)
I quit commuting and finally moved to DC three years ago this past fall. Since that time, I quit my vegetarian ways and made up for lost sushi eating time, and have been trying every restaurant I could get a friend to recommend. I have found the most inventive chefs in town are Mickey and Hiro, at Tono Sushi.
December 06, 2000 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
After you've started making your own sushi, you'll want to start buying and cutting your own fish. At this point, you need Masuo Yoshino's Sushi: The Delicate Flavor of Japan. It has taught me more about fish and fish cuts than any other resource.
December 06, 2000 in Books | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sushi by Ryuichi Yoshii is one of my two working sushi cookbooks; get it for your kitchen, not your bookshelf.
December 06, 2000 in Books | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
For Thanksgiving I made a turkey. But for the weekend after Thanksgiving, I went all out and made gunkan maku-zushi, or battleship sushi. This type of sushi is made with a small, golf-ball-sized amount of rice, a thin strip of nori paper, and the sushi itself. You usually see battleship sushi served for pretty gooey materials.
December 04, 2000 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I've spent a lot of time looking around the Washington DC area for good sake. While many of the local restaurants have fine sake for consumption on premises, it's a lot harder to find a good grocery store that carries a decent selection of sake.
Continue reading "You want sake! You need sake! Buy it at Naniwa!" »
December 02, 2000 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
With the demise of the Asian supermarket Lucky World on Rt. 50, I worried there would be a vacuum in the world of asian grocery stores. I stopped one of the managers in their last month (May 2000) amid empty shelves that previously held a plethora of asian goodies and she said, "business was slow". Luckily, I found Han Ah Reum!
December 02, 2000 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I just discovered AdCritic.Com through a search I did looking for that famous patriotic Molsen commercial. The site is run by some guy named Peter from Purple Cow.
December 02, 2000 in General | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Last week Shabbir and I went on a family vacation to Smyrna Beach, FL, a very sleepy condo town for American vacationers who prefer American food within an hour's drive of Daytona.
Continue reading "Sushi in Florida - Fish cocktail surprise" »
December 02, 2000 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0)
masu is the Japanese word for the small, traditional, wooden box for drinking sake out of. Better Japanese restaurants will keep a stock of them on hand, and allow their regulars to buy their own masu, decorate, and keep it at the restaurant.
Continue reading "You know you need a masu, but where to get one?" »
December 02, 2000 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)