Posted in Japan on October 17th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve always really enjoyed the idea of edible flowers and flower flavouring. As a teenager, one of my favourite candies was Chowards violet mints. The flavour is earthy but sweet, and there’s a real satisfaction, for me personally, in the foil paper packaging. Unwrapping and eating a mint is a full on experience. There’s something [...]
Posted in Japan on September 17th, 2009 No Comments »
It’s taken forever for me to get this up. I was busy during my mid-week weekend spending time with friends and my pa, running errands, and getting my office space together. Along with the usual Vermont autumnal weather changes that occurred somewhere in those 48 hours came the usual head cold. One more night of [...]
Posted in site news on December 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Rather than work on my twenty page research paper, I went through and re-did the Okazu wishlist at JBox/JList. So here’s a link. There are too many things I’d like to eat. Gothic Lolita gum? Yes please!
(image from JList)
Not much else to report. A couple non-food entries coming up (a movie trailer and a cosmetics [...]