I’ve just made my fourth batch of homemade kimchi, and it’s the first one I’m totally satisfied with. I have been going around telling everybody about my kimchi. Some people want it. Some people want me to keep it away from them. Here’s the recipe, which I’ve cobbled together from three different cookbooks: Momofuku, Eating […]
Susanna is a travel nanny. She specializes in traveling overseas with her clients and looking after their young charges in unfamiliar surroundings—including Japan. She read my book and emailed to ask if I wanted to meet up before we left. Did I ever. She loaned me some books and gave me helpful advice about Japanese […]
If you have a good recipe for blintzes… and a good recipe for rhubarb compote… you might want to serve the latter on the former. Scratch that, I know you want to.
I can’t wait to tell you all about it. But I will wait, because I am so jetlagged that I awoke from my nap convinced that we were having a major earthquake, but it was just my head sloshing. A few things I miss about Japan already: Convenience store rice balls. In fact, Japanese convenience […]
How much do you enjoy planning for a vacation when compared to the actual vacation? If you’re typical, according to a study reported in the New York Times, the anticipation is better than the actual trip: The study, published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life, showed that the largest boost in happiness […]
