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Some purple prose on the subject of summer
Pure, sweet distillation of summer: the blaze of eternity visible through the fissures of our time-fettered world. If we’ll pass into the next life to the strains of some heartbreakingly sweet chord, … more →
midorikai 2008-2009
Honey Cake
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Tess wrote 2 months ago: http://1tess.wordpress.com A Sweet and Happy New Year 5770! Shana Tova! It is Rosh Hashanah, and I h … more →
cabinet of wonders: yamanaka ishikawaya green tea sweets
Trane DeVore wrote 3 months ago: Some of the nicest packaging I’ve come across lately has to be from the set of Yamanaka Ishika … more →
7.6 | 9.25 p.m.
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Molly Harbarger wrote 5 months ago: The end is becoming a very real thing. This week of classes, next week of tests. Done. Two weeks of … more →
7.5 | 5.45 p.m.
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Molly Harbarger wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been practically unplugged for the past two days. It’s been weird. But, so fun. Aft … more →
Akko - Acre & Ghetto Fighters Museum
mysticaljett wrote 5 months ago: Yesterday, I had a really good day just playing tourist. I went up to the Old City of Akko/Acre whi … more →
Persimmon Purée Gelée
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Tess wrote 1 year ago: Persimmon, an exotic fruit for one who has always lived in cold northern places, is a taste of tropi … more →
Dorayaki Adventures...
erinachan wrote 1 year ago: So I had to fill a super order for the last couple days and it finally came down to the final item o … more →
Mitsumame! Japan's Summertime Sweet
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Tess wrote 1 year ago: Mitsumame is a traditional Japanese summertime sweet—a bowl of fruit, sweet red peas, ice cream and … more →
Blueberry Gems
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Tess wrote 1 year ago: This is another in the summer jewel kanten experiments. Blueberries are so lovely eaten out of hand … more →
Maize Gelée
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Tess wrote 1 year ago: Corn agar-agar, korn kanten, maize gelée, creamy yellow jello… What was I thinking? Tomatoes h … more →
Watermelon Jewels
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Tess wrote 1 year ago: Watermelon can be an elegant summer dessert—what is more tempting than frosty pink fruit shimmering … more →
Matcha Mousse
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Tess wrote 1 year ago: Today’s recipe is a fine example of innovation in Japanese cooking. The recipe combines two ve … more →
Green Tea (Matcha) Sponge Cake
corre! wrote 1 year ago: Ingredients: 90g white chocolate 80g butter 3 egg yolks 3 egg whites 40g x 2 sugar 40g flour 20g cor … more →
Some purple prose on the subject of summer
Eric Dean wrote 1 year ago: Pure, sweet distillation of summer: the blaze of eternity visible through the fissures of our time-f … more →
Chakai
Eric Dean wrote 1 year ago: Another break from the lecture-lunch-practice norm today, because we’d been invited to a chakai host … more →
Tea minutiae; crazy old dudes on bikes
Eric Dean wrote 1 year ago: Off of the busy main street on which I live run countless smaller streets. Because this is Japan, th … more →
Tea History; tana
Eric Dean wrote 1 year ago: It looked like it might rain, and then it rained. Hamana-sensei quizzed us on things we should have … more →
Artifice; chimaki; free ice cream
Eric Dean wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday’s chemical imbalance or whatever it was seems to have cleared itself up nicely, than … more →
Tea sweets; hakobi usucha
Eric Dean wrote 1 year ago: Today was our last day at school in western clothes. It came not a day too soon. Now is as good a ti … more →
