Happy New Year!  I can’t believe the holiday season passed so quickly, and now we are in 2012.  Soon we will be bitching about the hot summer.

I was in Japan for the holidays, and had quite a few good food moments. I am really thankful to iPhone since I can now take pictures anywhere (and pretty decent
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Do you serve your best food on ugly plates? Are you still using the saucers from your mom’s back closet from when you moved away from home? Or do you instead spend all your birthday money on new additions to your Floral Heaven dinnerware set, dreaming of one day completing the whole
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We all know how even the saddest piece of stale-ass bread can taste so good when we’re out in nature, hungry after a walk and enjoying the snack with friends and the singing birds.

When you talk about umami, it’s not just about the flavours in your mouth. It’s just as well about all the other
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I’ve taken an initiative here to start a new column. It’s a hodgepodge of gay-related posts on food. Please enjoy.

My apartment is filled with stuff. From expensive All-Clad to ass-chap printed glasses to Prada to Louis Vuitton, I have them all. Gaysians are especially bad when it comes to brand names. I usually
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I was checking up on the backend of Umamimart the other day, and noticed something peculiar– someone had landed on this here blog by Googling the keyword phrase, “whore teacup.”

After a little Googling myself, I came to find that Lady Gaga had posted a
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I’ve been in the US for 14 years, and I have pretty much tried all of what this great country has to offer for the kitchen. As you remember, from Smart Lidz to vegetable-life-prolonging bags to cheap
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The 25th Umamiventure took place at Hida Tool and Hardware in Berkeley. After writing about sharpening Carbon and Stainless Steel
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My pops got a new fish slicer-dicer for work. Check it.

He got it engraved with the
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Tmonkey is very grumpy in the morning. He depends on his morning coffee to wake up!Recently he purchased a new coffee making device called the Aeropress Coffee/Espresso Maker. The old espresso machine was pooping out, and this
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I am going CAMPING this summer and I imagine some of you are too :)

So what are you eating is the next question, right? Well, before you can eat, you need something to eat on, so check out these lovely cook and meal sets (includes the awesome spork!).

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