UMAMIVENTURE #12Jordan’s Lobster DockSheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NYSunday 9/21 Jordan’s has been around since 1938! Come out on Sunday for lobster rolls, steamed lobsters, raw and fried oysters, clam chowder and fried zucchini. You’re not going to make me eat alone, are you??? Lobster season is dwindling, so this is your last chance- please join me! […]
Author Archives: Kayoko Akabori
September 15, 2008
Little Gordon, Pt. 3: UnFuckingBelievable
Just found another one!!! Watch the other two here.
September 12, 2008
The Umami Reader, vol.031
Sorry I skipped out last week- didn’t have anything to report. I’m making up for it this week, though: Will Japan’s “konbini” concept make its debut in the States? Smaller food shops providing prepared meals and drinks? Can I get a whut whut… (via Tmonkey, NY Times) Live and work on an organic farm in […]
September 11, 2008
Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie (NYC)
After spending cocktail hour at Botanica, we headed over to Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie around the corner- a definite stopover everyone should make while in Red Hook. I had run into Steve at last year’s Atlantic Antic, and over the years I’ve always ordered the pie at Brooklyn restaurants whenever it’s on the menu, […]
September 9, 2008
Taco… Rice!?!?!!
After Yoko’s post this weekend about taco ricing in Okinawa, I was super intrigued. Have you ever heard of such a thing??? As Yoko mentioned, taco rice origins lie in Okinawa, and is a product of the US occupation of the island. More about taco rice on Wiki– it’s fascinating. Leave it up to the […]
September 8, 2008
Coffee Snobbery: The French Press
A few weeks ago, Amy and I were eating pizza and discussing how exactly to best brew coffee from a French press. I’ve been using a French press for a few years now (initially cause I don’t have counter space for my drip machine), but have never been tutored on how to properly make coffee […]
September 5, 2008
Mexican Seafood Dining in a Parking Lot (San Jose)
Here is my new favorite place that Christi and Mike brought me to in Man Jose called Dia de Pesca. It’s a seafood taco shack out of a “roach coach” that ROCKS. Literally, it’s just an old school mobile home that houses the kitchen, parked in the middle of a parking lot, with tables and […]
September 3, 2008
Fresh Tuna from the Superfreezer
Tagged along with the Education program at Japan Society last month for a trip out to Secaucus, NJ to visit Uoriki Fresh, a company that imports fresh tuna and other fish, and distributes it all over the east and west coast (their big client is Whole Foods). This excursion was a part of an intense […]
September 2, 2008
Salad Cracker “Pizzas” at the US Open
Went to the US Open on Friday- it was so neat! It’s a NY event that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, so at the 11th hour, I snagged 2 day tickets from a coworker for me and Mariana. We got to the Tennis Center at 11am all bright eyed and giddy- […]