What is Umami? Ponder the oyster. A martini. Tom yum. Carne asada. Fleur de sel. All umami. Don't try to define it! Just surrender to the addiction; savor the flavor implosion.
Sonja: I love anything with rose so this sounds fantastic! I like the glass as well 
rikomatic: ok, that market looks crazy dope. Now I have to go to C-town and get some pork buns.
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March 17, 2010
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, which along with Cinco de Mayo, make two of the year’s best excuses to get hammered early. Like other revelers, I’m looking forward to a day filled with shots of Irish whiskey and pints of Guinness, and harassing whoever dares
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March 10, 2010
This morning I left the house without a coat, beanie, or scarf. While savoring the fresh air and sunshine I realized Spring had arrived early to the party, and DJ Mother Nature (who’s the one throwing the shindig) was shouting, “Let’s get this party started!” Well Big
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March 3, 2010
In the world of mixology, there aren’t many cocktails based on Cognac relative to the other spirits. I can count less than twenty old recipes off the top of my head, which is really not much, considering a quarter are mere variations of each other, and another
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February 17, 2010
On Frenchmen Street, NOLA. Check out all Mardi Gras Mayhem here.
February 16, 2010
I made it! After a horrible 15-hour trip yesterday to get here (SFO –> LAX –> DFW –> MSY; Damn you, American Airlines!), I’m here! My first night was totally awesome– fireworks, bloody marys, red beans and rice, waving to Harry Connick Jr. and Sean Payton
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February 12, 2010
For me, days on the mountain become frequent this time of year, and aside from the snow, there is only one other thing that I expect to be present… Lagunitas Brown Shugga’!!!
Lagunitas brewery is located in Peteluma, CA and has a good variety of micro-brews
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February 10, 2010
So the Saints finally won a Super Bowl, and while many of you surely pounded Hurricanes to celebrate, here in the Eastern Seaboard, the weather conditions don’t quite call out for something so tropical. In other words, there’s a blizzard happening right outside my door. Of course when it
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February 9, 2010
Photos by Mike Brandeberry and Kayoko Akabori.
‘Tis true: there lives a kickass distillery named St. George Spirits, just east of San Francisco, right across the Bay Bridge, in a little town that bleeds into Oakland, called Alameda, in California.
A group of us went a few weeks
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February 5, 2010
Dear SFers,
Yoko (Tokyo JUNKtion), CJ (Tap This) and I (UM Event Planner) will be at Magnolia Pub on Monday at 7pm to celebrate the relaunch over beers.
But not just any beers. We’re talking STRONG BEERS. That’s right, it’s that time of year again in
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February 3, 2010
We’re back! If you’ve made it here then you already know that what you’re seeing is the new, faster, stronger, hotter, umami-er, relaunched Umamimart, and that the old UM has been forever cast off into Blogger oblivion (or Bolivian, as Mike Tyson would say).
To the loyal readers who patiently waited
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