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Loading ...July 22, 2010
I was always baffled by tamari. I had never used it until one of my friends and faithful readers of UM suggested that I should write about tamari vs. shoyu (soy sauce) on Japanify.
So this week, I purchased San-J brand’s Tamari (I chose that brand because I happened to
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July 21, 2010
In Umamimart’s three year history, I can’t believe we’ve never devoted a post to Japanese mayonnaise. We reference this stuff all the time, but have never really covered it. Blasphemy!
Japanese mayo is more tart than the regular American version. This is because vinegar
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July 6, 2010
PREFACE: Ingredients + Recipe Prep + Boil
I’m not sugarcoating this. I need you to understand what a truly, utterly, and horrifyingly HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS this entire project is. When browsing the I N T
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July 2, 2010
This is one of those projects that I always think I can handle, but it just turns into dread, and ultimately only goes to prove what a huge procrastinator I am. Since I picked up the plums from Christi a week ago, it’s just
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June 23, 2010
Ho Ho Ho, look what I found. Tapatio PACKETS!!!! You Californians might be used to this kind of goodness, but as a longtime expat, this is a HUGE DISCOVERY.
Walked over to Lanesplitter the other day for a pizza, and they
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January 27, 2009
Took a bus tour down to the Izu Peninsula back in November, in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan, full of small coastal towns, fresh seafood and blissful onsen. We stopped at
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January 21, 2009
Here’s something awesome that Matt brought back for me from his jaunt in Paris. Looks like just an ordinary jar of cornichons (aka the Gherkin), right? Think again.
When you open it up, there
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October 13, 2008
Sonja just got back from a summer jaunt in Switzerland (where she spa-ed and dined like a princess, and consumed a lot of yogurt), and she brought me back a little gift: mayonnaise! It’s really scary how well some people know me.
The brand is Thomy, a condiment company based in Germany. The packaging for
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July 11, 2008
Here’s something my mama sent me recently- three different kinds of salad dressing that come in these really cute, stout, hexagon-shaped glass bottles. No doubt they were on sale at Mitsuwa or something (Hideko is the craziest bargain shopper ever, and she also lives at Mitsuwa).
The dressings are from Japan, from a brand called “Asadaya”. She sent me
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May 14, 2008
Jorge lives in Portugal, where he is researching for his book on music and migration. He’s back for a month, so I’m trying to get as much quality Jorgetime as possible. Check out this little project that Fumiko and I came home to one night. You know that Magritte painting of a pipe that says “Ceci nest past une pipe”
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