Bamboo

What’s in season…?

What’s in season…?

Seasonality is embraced wholeheartedly in Japan and vegetable lockers are a great place to get your healthy, delicious fix whilst supporting your local farmer. The unmanned open shelves are the best as you get to inspect up close before choosing and it’s also nice to be reminded that you are living in a fairly honest society […]

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  April 1, 2018   No comments
Bamboo (Take)

Bamboo (Take)

The arc of discovery in Japanese food will, in springtime, put you face to face with this delicious grass. It is a very simple process to cook bamboo shoots and you need not worry about the toxic nature of it so long as you don’t eat it raw! Japanese cooks rarely deviate from the classic […]

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  March 21, 2017   No comments