We’re all fucking poor! Deal with it.
UM Recession
December 16, 2010
Japanify: Hideko’s Korokke (Potato Croquettes)
Hey everyone, Kayoko here again, sitting in for Yoko this week.
I’m pretty broke these days, and haven’t been eating out much. Plus, it’s cold out– I mean, the Bay Area isn’t as cold as London/ Tokyo/ Copenhagen/ NYC, but still, it’s pretty chilly for us Californians (low hi 52˚F/ low 42˚F, today. Sorry Snow Martians,
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June 9, 2009
UM Recession: 88 Cent Meal
You read it right – 88 cents (or yen). I have mastered the art of cheap bastardism, and come up with a meal that could be the favorite for both my taste buds and my wallet. In a city like Tokyo, where you expect
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March 4, 2009
UM Recession: $1 (100 yen) Ramen
photo Yomiuri OnlineThe global economic crisis has brought on haken-giri, an onslaught of job cuts for haken workers in Japanese companies. Haken workers are part-timers and day-laborers who work on a
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March 1, 2009
UM Recession: Cornish Hens and Madeleines
Some ideas for recessionary cooking:
Tonight’s dinner was cornish hens ($5.80 for two at the local Trade Fair in Astoria). The price by weight was significantly lower than chicken breast, which is why I bought it–my
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February 17, 2009
UM Recession: Chinatown Heaven
Chinatown is awesome. If you can deal with the smell of dead animals and fish, the occasional dead pig or cow sitting on the sidewalk, millions of people walking toward you, a live eel
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January 29, 2009
UM Recession: Free Lunch at Google HQ
Went over to Google HQ in Mt. View for lunch today. The plethora of food there is just mind-blowing- not to mention FREE!!! Doesn’t have the views like the NYC offices, but on
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June 19, 2008
UM Recession: Amish Market Butter
There’s been much talk about butter in the press in the last few months: the NY Mag butter taste-testing, and the article that Emily (of Serious Eats) pointed out about Japan’s endangered butter supply. Also, there was my babbling manifesto on butter last year- the stuff means a lot to me.
But, butter is
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June 2, 2008
UM Recession: Just Don’t Eat
Here’s something I saw in my subway stop over the weekend- “Slim Shots”, liquid appetite controllers that look more like little containers of half & half. Let’s call them appetite control creamers. Fucking gross!!! Their tagline is “Eat up to 30% less everyday without feeling hungry”. Perfect during our declining economy- I mean, who can really afford to eat
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May 5, 2008
UM Recession: VRAC Cotes du Rhone
Please excuse my pathetic ability to describe wine. I realize that my descriptive abilities of eating is pretty mediocre to begin with (lots of ooohh and mmms), but wine is like a whole other sphere of knowledge that I
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April 10, 2008
Umamimart Recession Survival Kit: <$10 wines
If Greenspan himself says we’re “in the throes”, well, dammit, I guess that means we’re in the throes. I don’t know about you, but staring down the barrel of a recession makes me want to drink more, not less.
I’m sure kanshefle will have much better tips but again, I must toot the horn of Chilean wines,
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