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Re: Update [message #48549 is a reply to message #48548 ] Thu, 23 February 2012 21:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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And chopsticks.


Of all the things I've learned from this blog (ok, "learned"), I think my favorite is using chopsticks to eat salad. WHY I never thought of this before you mentioned it, I have no idea. It's brilliant. It solves so many eating-salad problems.

And yaaayyy for getting the Japanese cookbook!


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Re: Update [message #48550 is a reply to message #48549 ] Thu, 23 February 2012 21:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You will be glad you got the book. He explains whats so good about Japanese food, both the high art stuff, and the everyday, ordinary good stuff. Like a bowl of noodles. and pickles. You won't be sorry.

But 3 times the cost of the book? oy veh.
sorry.
Re: Update [message #48551 is a reply to message #48548 ] Thu, 23 February 2012 23:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It was something about Japanese rural cooking or Japanese cheap rural cooking and it had recipes for stuff like feeding ten people on a handful of rice and one medium-sized shrimp.

This sounds like the sort of lovely cookbook one bought when one was a student, or recently post-student, and from which one learned that cheap cooking is often really good.



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Re: Update [message #48554 is a reply to message #48549 ] Fri, 24 February 2012 03:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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blondviolinist wrote on Thu, 23 February 2012 18:37

Quote:

And chopsticks.


Of all the things I've learned from this blog (ok, "learned"), I think my favorite is using chopsticks to eat salad. WHY I never thought of this before you mentioned it, I have no idea. It's brilliant. It solves so many eating-salad problems.

And yaaayyy for getting the Japanese cookbook!


Chopsticks and knives are the two essentials to my kitchen. It might be a trifle more difficult to cook and eat without forks and spoons and spatulas and things, but it would be possible. There is nothing that cannot be eaten or cooked with those three (cos chopsticks are two) implements. I always serve salad with chopsticks. That whole big-fork-and-big-spoon thing is so awkward.

One mildly interesting thing about Japanese food - I grew up with the Osaka version, apparently, cos that's where my mom's from. Tokyo food, which is what's typically available at restaurants in the US, is never quite *right* to me. I do have a few comfort-food dishes I make occasionally... *is prompted to figure out if she actually brought the recipes with her to faraway places where she finds herself now...*
Re: Update [message #48556 is a reply to message #48548 ] Fri, 24 February 2012 11:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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amazon has just sent me an email offering me special discounts on language learning books. Including . . . wait for it . . . Colloquial Icelandic. I wouldn’t kid you about this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415207061/ref=pe_178531_28916251 _pe_epc_dt2



I'm tempted to buy purely to own the cover!

Re: Update [message #48574 is a reply to message #48548 ] Sun, 26 February 2012 01:40 Go to previous message
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I ran across the cook book (Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art) today at one branch of a used book store. Looked real interesting (probably kick my self for not getting it). I dabble in cooking, more trying to recreate the Korean meals I had growing up. The one cookbook that has my attention right now is The Just Bento Cookbook. I like the idea of simple foods...

Huzzah for chopsticks! Though I remember using a pair of thin metal (kinda like tapered fettucine pasta) chopsticks to eat slippery noodles when I was a kid, very difficult. They didn't have grooves to help keep the noodles in place, so they'd slide off and into the bowl.
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