Judging from the numbers of my posts, we do not eat beef that often. Unlike our "youngish" food blogger colleague who buys two (Ja...

For some reason, shredded raw cabbage is the most common accompaniment for many Japanese-Western dishes or " Yo-shoku" 洋食 suc...

Sometimes when you are trying a new recipe, things don't go right. I have less of a problem with this because I usually don't follo...

This dish must have been invented after I left Japan. It is a wonderful dish except for being rather fatty or, if I borrow the expression fr...

Japanese like to eat seasonal " Sansai" 山菜 or mountain vegetables. These are wild vegetables collected from the mountains. One ...

The Dupont Circle area has undergone significant change over the years and is now a very vibrant neighborhood with numerous good restaurants...

I saw this dish in Dave P's review of "En" in Kichijouji 吉祥寺. " Kinpira " 金平 is a very simple Japanese way of brai...