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Sketches from Cook it Raw: Trees
Rene Redzepi sat at a table surrounded by journalists. Six people were helping him snip the thousands of pine needles necessary to make the ....
26 Sep 8:59 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sketches from Cook it Raw: Lakes
The fishermen had been out since before dawn. Sober-faced and silently smoking, they shook out their nets, and the fish made a gentle ploppi....
17 Sep 3:05 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sketches from Cook it Raw: The Lichen
The lichen that carpets the floor of the Lapland forests is plush and pliant, moist and springy to the touch. It blooms in jade-toned terres....
14 Sep 1:57 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A Little in Love with Hong Kong
Over the weekend, I ate blood. I gambled at the temple of tack that is the Venetian. I sweated my ass off running from meal to meal and love....
5 Aug 8:31 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
We Say Oui to Kagurazaka
In the midst of Tokyo’s garish fluorescent glow, Kagurazaka feels like ananachronism. With its stone paved alleys and sloping, lantern-lit....
19 Jul 5:52 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Strategy Is Everything
This is as true in sake tasting as it is in war. At a recent sake fair in Ochanomizu, however, I found myself without one, drifting around a....
12 Jul 11:05 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
This Link is Not Dead
I heard their muffled laughter as I tiptoed through the front door. Thick with alcohol and insinuation, it echoed heavily down the corridor,....
2 Jul 11:49 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Festive Tokyo
The foot traffic in and out of Harajuku station was astounding. At several points between the platform and the exit -- a distance of about 2....
20 May 7:41 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
When Inspiration Doesn’t Strike
This past April, JP was accepted into a graduate program in socio-linguistics. It's a good thing, one of those logical career-building moves....
11 May 7:53 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Prepare Your Palate: Ginjo Shinshu Festival 2010
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4 May 10:45 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Other Side of Kinshicho
The neighborhood of Kinshicho has a somewhat unsavory reputation. It is perhaps best known for its abundance of “gaijin pubs” (aka seed....
13 Apr 9:20 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Why Do I Have Spring Fever?
The last time I attended a really big sake event in Tokyo about six months ago, an older woman, who had clearly had a little too much to dri....
7 Apr 9:20 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tempt Me with Tempura
Although sushi is probably Japan’s most famous culinary export, tempura is a close second. Wooing the world through the international lan....
27 Mar 11:27 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sake no Jin and One Last Look at Niigata
The participants at last week's Niigata Sake no Jin festival could have easily numbered over 80,000 people. As I looked across the crowds, I....
20 Mar 8:33 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Quiet Luxury in Shibata
My suite at the Tsukioka Onsen resort is a small-scale, modern approximation of the summer homes where samurai once retreated for periods of....
18 Mar 10:47 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A Taste of Murakami
I'd heard that Murakami was famous for its salmon. Somehow I didn't make the connection between the seaside town in northern Niigata and the....
16 Mar 6:21 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Niigata Hustle
Our time in Niigata City was hectic. After our visit to the senbei factory, we rounded out the day with a trip to the Northern Culture Museu....
15 Mar 7:26 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Make a Wish
The weather in Yahiko yesterday was gloriously warm. After three days in the frozen center of Snow Country, it was nice to be able to walk a....
13 Mar 11:13 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Eye of the Tiger in Niigata
My morning yukata is bright blue, covered with pink and white flowers. We arrived in the quaint village of Yahiko after 6:00 yesterday eveni....
12 Mar 9:18 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Onward and Art-ward Ho
The train speeds on from Yuzawa north toward Tokamachi. It’s blinding white out, a pristine expanse of snow dotted with buildings done in ....
10 Mar 8:54 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A Snowy State of mind in Yuzawa
As I look out my window this morning, the sun is peeking through the clouds over the mountains. Behind me, steam billows up from a distant c....
10 Mar 7:46 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Damn My Eyes
For they are far bigger than my stomach. Unfortunately, that didn't stop me from stuffing my face with everything that came into my line of ....
9 Mar 11:23 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Playing Catch-Up
I woke up at 6:30 this morning feeling as close to human as I had in days. Jet lag has not been kind. I waded through the weekend in a fog,....
8 Mar 1:32 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Soul of Japan through the Drinking Glass
It happens to the best of us. We go through our days, wrapped up in routines as comfortable as the sweats we used to wear in college. No fac....
27 Jan 9:44 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Chichibu Keeps You Coming Back
When people come to visit me in Japan, it always amazes me how much they travel around.“We’re going up to Nagano, down to Shikoku, then ....
16 Jan 7:14 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Barrel Fever
In late November, I found myself frantically searching for a bottle of barrel-aged taruzake. I checked several stores and was met with the s....
9 Jan 3:27 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
So It’s the Week after Christmas, and What Have You Done?
“Are you absolutely sure?” I asked. “Shouldn’t we talk about it?”“No, no,” JP said, shaking his head and gently waving his han....
31 Dec 10:49 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Breakfast of Champions
It was a whimsically warm autumn morning. The sky was the placid blue of a Magritte painting, and the leaves were flecked with rust. Even at....
11 Dec 2:18 pm  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Falling in Love (Again) with Sake
The weather's been on a crazy emotional roller-coaster ride. We'd had a pretty chilly cold snap a couple of weeks ago. Then, after days of w....
30 Nov 11:27 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Oodles of Noodles
Like so many revolutions, the rise sanuki udon began with a book. Sanuki udon, Shikoku’s special brand of thick wheat noodles, had long b....
20 Nov 10:41 am  from  Tokyo Drinking Glass   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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