Posted in dining out, food, food & travel, Japan, Japanese, Kyoto, noodles, restaurant review, restaurants, sushi, travel, travel tips, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 29th, 2009
After travelling to see the Jigokudani snow monkeys (see Snow Monkeys and Soba Noodles) in the Japan Alps, we returned to Yokohama to repack our bags before leaving early the next morning for Kyoto, Japan’s old imperial capital. Planning the three days was harder than I thought. I had to drop many of the items [...]
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Posted in cookery, cooking, food, food & travel, Japan, Japanese, noodles, Tokyo, travel, travel tips, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 23rd, 2009
This short trip from Tokyo to Yamanouchi town in Nagano prefecture, the Japan Alps was the first section of the two week trip to Japan that I planned. The husband had a yearning to see the Jigokudani snow monkeys (wild Japanese macaques) that keep warm in the freezing winter months by bathing in their own [...]
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I’ve recently started to enjoy eating all kinds of fried things at home. They’re not the healthiest of foods, but once in a while, they’re so delicious and makes a change from all the ‘good’ food we eat, whether it’s soup, lentils or beans. After eating various fried goodies throughout the year, including Japanese tempura, [...]
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Posted in Argentinian, dining out, food, food & travel, London, restaurant review, restaurants, steakhouse, traveleating, vegetarian on Oct 8th, 2009
Buenos Aires has been languishing on my list of travel destinations for far too long now. I can’t even remember when I first decided that I wanted to go there, but in my imagination, I’m eating juicy steaks, relaxing at an estancia, going horse-riding and dancing the tango. And enjoying churros with hot chocolate in [...]
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As you may know, I’m always on Twitter. So when food writer and allotmentista (aka allotment grower) Celia Brooks Brown tweeted the other day asking for people to help test some recipes for her upcoming cookery book, I volunteered my services. She’d recently quoted one of my tweets in her New Urban Farmer column in [...]
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