Tag: food
member name: gil asakawa
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December 04, 2006 12:38 AM EST --
The Washington Post recently reported that the government of Japan is going to start checking out Japanese restaurants all over the world and handing out seals of approvals for those deemed to be serving . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:57 PM EST --
In the U.S., snack food manufacturers in recent years have become creative, and come up with a variety of flavor combinations beyond the old barbecue-flavor potato chips or the nacho cheese flavored . . .
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January 08, 2007 07:01 PM EST --
Most Americans, at least of my generation, will probably recognize this phrase: "There are people starving in Africa." The geographic locale might change -- China, Ethiopia - but the meaning . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
The ebb and flow of New York neighborhoods is a great example of how cities evolve.
When I attended Pratt Institute in the late 1970s, the East Village neighborhood in Manhattan along St. Marks Place . . .
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July 09, 2007 01:52 AM EDT --
Two news items worth noting, although one is kinda old already:
First Burger King has announced that in Hawaii, they're selling a new item, a Spam Platter -- two slices of Spam nestled between white . . .
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January 09, 2007 03:17 PM EST --
The world lost a food pioneer last Friday. Momofuku Ando, 97, was the man who invented instant ramen -- the low budget dining delicacy of college students everywhere.
Long before sushi, there was another . . .
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September 15, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
It's great to feel so welcomed.
Erin and I arrived late yesterday afternoon at Honolulu Airport and called up Regina Shimomura, a cousin I'd never met. She's the twin sister of Laura McHugh, . . .
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December 29, 2006 01:30 AM EST --
As a child, Christmas was always more important to me than the New Year holiday. I was spoiled rotten with toys and each year I could hardly wait to rip open the latest pile of presents to make sure I . . .
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February 10, 2008 06:41 PM EST --
Hot stuff: Orochon Ramen lets you choose your level of heat. I opted for #3 and it was pretty damned warm.
When Erin and I were in LA last month, we ate dinner with her cousin Lisa . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
The scene was surreal: I was part of a bon odori dance in the middle of the countryside, with a couple of hundred spectators -- mostly local Caucasian farm families, along with some Hispanic and African . . .
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September 10, 2006 09:56 AM EDT --
This was a blog post that I wrote for Denverpost.com in 2005, when I managed that Web site (I now live and work in Jersey City, NJ). I traveled there with my mom for only the third time since my . . .
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September 21, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
Monday, Sept. 17
This day was one of discovery about my family. It began with my cousin Aileen Moriwake guiding us to the apartment of my Aunt Mary Asakawa and my cousin Keith, who's probably around . . .
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February 02, 2008 11:35 PM EST --
Erin and I went out to eat tonight at Thai Basil , a very popular restaurant in southeast Denver. We had eaten there a couple of weeks ago with friends and enjoyed the food, so we decided to give it a . . .
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September 20, 2007 11:41 PM EDT --
Sunday, Sept. 16
The Hanzawa-Sakuma family reunion was a Sunday brunch, held at a restaurant on Shafter Army Base in Honolulu. Because she was one of the organizing committee members, Laura had to get . . .
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September 18, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
Saturday, September 15
Yesterday was a long day, and a preview of today's reunion.
We started with the relaxed morning of papaya and conversation with Laura, but eventually moved on to the day's . . .
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October 30, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
Note: This long and self-indulgent piece is a journal of an annual road trip I used to make with my best friend Leland Rucker, to the South By Southwest Music and Media Conference (better known as SXSW, . . .
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September 24, 2007 09:14 AM EDT --
Tuesday, Sept. 18
We spent the day with Regine, Laura's twin sister, and the evening with Laura and John. She lives just a few minutes away in the older section of Mililani, land of rusty dirt. She . . .
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September 27, 2007 05:19 PM EDT --
Wednesday, Sept. 19
It was sad leaving Laura and John's in Mililani – it's a beautiful and comfortable home, and they were so gracious and generous, it felt like we've known them all . . .
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September 30, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
Thursday, Sept. 20
This was a food and friendship day. We got up and had a leisurely morning, hanging around Richela's condo. Then Erin and I drove past downtown to meet up with Bill Rose, one of . . .
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October 14, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
Friday, Sept. 21
Another big food day. We're eating our way across Oahu.
It was also a day of hunting history.
We began the day with Richela, who joined us in a drive downtown to the Japanese Cultural . . .
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