May 17, 2009
Cool fish, eh? These are curing salmon, strung from a snowy porch in the coastal town of Murakami, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Click here to find out more about the process: warning, it’s in Japanese. Here’s how my sister, who has lived in Japan for close to 2o years and who took the pictures, translates:
◆鮭の内臓とエラを取り除いて洗い、良くヌメリをとります。
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May 15, 2009
Penzeys Spices recently opened a new branch in Santa Monica, which is very handy or very dangerous, depending on how you look at it. When it comes to chile peppers, it can be both. We have a pretty good selection of both dried and fresh chiles in Los Angeles, between the farmers markets [...]
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