Roots and Grubs

People often ask me about my favorite food, and I have a favorite evasive, wordy, and unsatisfying answer, which goes like this: Any kind of spicy noodles with vegetables and meat. That’s actually an oversimplification. I specifically mean dry noodle dishes, not noodle soups, and they don’t have to be spicy at serving time, because […]

Iris and I stayed at a popular Asakusa tourist hotel called Ryokan Shigetsu. Everyone seems to have heard of the place, and with good reason: they took very, very good care of us. By the time we arrived at the Shigetsu, it was about 3am Seattle time and each of us was shocked that the […]