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January 19, 2011
Happy Hour: The Hot Toddy
Last week I wrote about the Hot Buttered Rum, and how it’s a winter drink for when you’re feeling festive (and when you’ve planned far enough ahead of time and made the essential spiced rum batter). Now that we’re nearing the dead of winter, you may be interested in something more simple– a drink that doesn’t require much advanced […]
January 14, 2011
Umamimart Shop Love U Sale
We’ve started off 2011 in cheesy mood here at Umamimart HQ, and have launched the Love U Feb 14% Sale in time for Valentine’s Day. All items in the Shop are now 14% off! Please take a look around. You’ll find that we’ve added the Yarai Mixing Glass + Barspoon Set, as well as the […]
January 3, 2011
Letter From the Editor: Year of the Rabbit
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Martians! 2010 was totally jam-packed, wasn’t it? Back in February the site got a facelift, and fast forward to November when we launched our first line for the Umamimart Shop. We organized nine successful Umamiventures throughout the year, in the Bay Area, NYC and LA, and of course there were so many […]
December 22, 2010
Happy Hour: Cielo de Jalisco
I really wanted to do a special Christmassey cocktail for you all but in the end I couldn’t really get my mental mojo into it– sorry, folks. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always enjoyed the special feeling the season invokes despite being an avowed atheist. I think I’m like most people in that sense, who […]
December 16, 2010
Hideko’s Korokke (Potato Croquettes)
Hey everyone, Kayoko here again, sitting in for Yoko this week. I’m pretty broke these days, and haven’t been eating out much. Plus, it’s cold out– I mean, the Bay Area isn’t as cold as London/ Tokyo/ Copenhagen/ NYC, but still, it’s pretty chilly for us Californians (low hi 52ËšF/ low 42ËšF, today. Sorry Snow […]
December 15, 2010
Happy Hour: Remember the Maine
“… just as there is no such thing as a 1/2-good girl there is no such animal as a 1/2-good drink. A mixed drink is either made correctly out of correct stuff: good; or it’s La Bebida Piojosa (lousy drink). Even a homely gal can, with cunningly-employed paint, powder, patches, rouge-pots, whale-bone and falsies, fool […]
December 14, 2010
Mezcal Tasting at Pensamiento (OAX)
Going on a mezcal tasting was very high on my list of things to do in Oaxaca. I was introduced to mezcal last year at the San Francisco pizzeria Beretta, when I told the bartender to make me whatever he desired. He mentioned a spirit from Mexico which was like tequila, but with notes of […]
December 8, 2010
Happy Hour: The Charlie Sheen
“Slash sat me down at his house and said, You’ve got to clean up your act. You know you’ve gone too far when Slash is saying, ‘Look, you’ve got to get into rehab.” – Charlie Sheen What do you do when you have trouble coming up with a name for a cocktail you’ve created? Well, […]
November 30, 2010
Umamimart Shop Holiday Trunk Show (SF)
How was everyone’s Thanksgiving Day? It’s my absolute favorite holiday– although Brother did not come home this year so I drowned my sorrows in bottomless glasses of wine and sake and shochu and was utterly wasted the entire night. Er, I was passed out on the couch by 8pm. Fun times. But now that that’s […]