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April 16, 2013
Flashback Fave: Sakura aka Slightly Peckish
*Sakura’s involvement with Umami Mart is testament to the power of bringing people together over the internet. I asked her to write for Umami Mart after she commented on our site. Somehow I knew that she would be a right fit — with her love of literature, food and culture. To this day we have […]
April 12, 2013
Flashback Fave: Payman aka The PDT Project + Happy Hour
*I met Payman at a dinner party at Erin’s in Brooklyn. He was making caprese cocktails, his own invention. A tomato and cheese cocktail, how wondrous! This was right at the beginning of the cocktail boom, and I was intrigued. He agreed to write for Umami Mart, and has helped to foster a community of […]
April 11, 2013
Flashback Fave: Yoko aka Japanify + Tokyo JUNKtion
*I still vividly remember the conversation about starting a food blog with Yoko. She was living in Tokyo and I was in Brooklyn and we were both visiting Cupertino, and we were at her mom’s house for dinner. We envisioned a casual blog where we would both contribute from oceans over. Maybe we would invite […]
April 9, 2013
Flashback Fave: Ryohei aka MOTOism + Yamahomo
When I asked MOTO what his most memorable post would be, he immediately replied back with: “It’s always wedding cake post for me. The amount of practice and trial and error it all took… yet the worst case scenario at the end was so priceless. I still vividly remember my conversation with Kayoko when we […]
April 5, 2013
Postcard from Hanoi: Bread Lady
*Johnny Lopes is based in San Francisco and is currently traveling through Southeast Asia for two months. Follow what he’s eating on his Flickr feed.
April 1, 2013
Culinography: Morimoto (NYC)
“Tramin” sashimi. Chef Douglas Kim for Morimoto NYC. Photograph by Erin Gleeson.Â
March 29, 2013
Postcard from Chiang Rai: Market Melons
*Johnny Lopes is based in San Francisco and is currently traveling through Southeast Asia for two months. Follow what he’s eating on his Flickr feed.
March 27, 2013
The Ramen Shaman: Men Oh (LA)
Men Oh hails from Tokushima prefecture on Shikoku Island, the smallest and least populated of Japans’s four main islands. Until the completion of the first of several bridge systems in 1988 the island was only accessible by ferry or plane, and to this day the mostly rural island flies under the radar. Their ramen is […]
March 26, 2013
MOTOism: Baking with Charcoal Powder
You know what’s inside your Brita filter, right? Charcoal. You know the best way to keep the fridge from smelling bad? Put a piece of charcoal in it. Due to its purifying effects, people in Japan take powdered charcoal as a daily supplement, and some people even say it saves you from radiation. There’s no […]
March 21, 2013
Postcard from Ko Lanta: Laanta Lanta Festival
*Johnny Lopes is based in San Francisco and is currently traveling through Southeast Asia for two months. Follow what he’s eating on his Flickr feed.