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I love natto. But it wasn’t always that way. My mom gave me my first taste when I was around seven or eight years old …
I’m a foodie. Everyone knows this. I write about food, I take photos of food everywhere I dine, I love to cook, and I love …
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“On Christmas Day, we’ll have Brazilian dishes, and on Oshogatsu1 we’ll have the Japanese New Year’s traditional foods. We Nikkei can enjoy twice as many …
“Noodle dishes are very popular, as they make a delicious and filling simple meal. It’s all right to make slurping noises while eating them—the extra …
It’s been 20 years since I graduated from college (!), and I realized I don’t have much to show from those days. Old, laughably out-of-date …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "4 Foods That Mystify My Non-Asian Friends!!" Check back every …
My mother likes feijoada, while my father likes bacalhoada. As for third-generation me, as a kid I liked natto. This is the first time I’ve …
When I was a child, I wouldn’t eat anything that I thought was too “weird,” at least to my American sensibility. Of course, natto fell …
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