Switching blogs

I'm closing out this blog. You might say it's a week early since 2009 isn't quite over. But my plan is to write a book about a year of food in Japan, and that will start and end with osechi ryori -- New Year's food. Preparations for that start now, so I'm starting a new blog at http://notjustrice.blogspot.com

See you there!

Hearty satisfaction in a very small can

Prices again

I walked over to Shimomura Shoten, a nearby store that sells baking goods, including canned pumpkin, and bought a kilo of whole wheat flour for 231 yen and a kilo of popping corn for 326 yen. The former because I was reduced to making two boules from 100% bread flour the yesterday. My wife and daughter loved them, but I didn't. Maybe if I'd waited a day after proofing, but I needed the bread then. The latter because we need a fun snack now and then, and our glass-topped sauce pan makes it fun even before we eat it.

Where are the apostrophe police?

Christmas SUSHI Cake

http://www.japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/view/sushi-christmas-cake

Christmas is coming

I was at a nearby private school yesterday and saw the lunch they were going to serve the students. It's was a fancy little bento, accompanied by a piece of cake. Christmas cake!

Last night, we went out to Mos Burger, where the signs say "Merry X'Mos" and they had these ads:

What is it???

It's a bag of Winter Cheese Doritos.

So now the question is, what's winter cheese?