Sharing favorite finds from across the archipelago
I've been known to make sushi at home on occasion but, given how affordable it is here in Japan, I've gotten too used to having others do all the work while I, ahem, eat the spoils. 🙂 But when a friend of mine arranged a group cooking class at Arigato Japan this past weekend, I... Continue Reading →
I have long had a fascination with wagashi, Japan's traditional confectionary, though it took me several years to actually get the acquired taste for them. I never had more than a passing desire to make them, however, until I saw that Ayuko of Buddha Bellies Cooking School Tokyo was offering a hands-on tutorial of the sweets... Continue Reading →
It's my final week in Kumamoto, which means getting around to all of those things I promised myself I would do before (and never did) or the things I just discovered in the past month and wondered why I had no idea they existed. The karashi renkon class at Murakami was a combination of both... Continue Reading →
In the past few years, a number of cooking classes have opened their doors to English speakers here in Japan. I've had the pleasure of cooking with Taro at Haru's Cooking in Kyoto in with Ayuko at Buddha Bellies in Tokyo, but IÂ finally managed to arrange a time to cook with Mari Nameshida of Mari's... Continue Reading →
