Häagen-Dazs Japan SpoonVege Carrot-Orange and Tomato-Cherry Ice Cream

Häagen-Dazs Japan SpoonVege Carrot-Orange and Tomato-Cherry Ice Cream

Greetings From Kyoto

Kyoto photographer Kosuke Okuda and I teamed up to do an article for the Russian travel magazine Afisha Mir (Афиша-Мир). I just got a PDF of the article — hot off the server!

In the article I introduced the long history of Aritsugu which was founded in 1560. Aritsugu is one of the most famous makers of traditional Japanese knives and they are found in good kitchens all over Japan. We focused on the special eel bone cutting ‘honegiri’ knife that is used for the traditional Kyoto summer delicacy of ‘hamo’ pike eel. The knife is over 40 cm long, weighs more that 500 gm and costs more than $1,000 USD!

I wrote it, but I can’t read it!!

Kyoto photographer Kosuke Okuda and I teamed up to do an article for the Russian travel magazine Afisha Mir (Афиша-Мир). I just got a PDF of the article — hot off the server!

In the article I introduced the long history of Aritsugu which was founded in 1560. Aritsugu is one of the most famous makers of traditional Japanese knives and they are found in good kitchens all over Japan. We focused on the special eel bone cutting ‘honegiri’ knife that is used for the traditional Kyoto summer delicacy of ‘hamo’ pike eel. The knife is over 40 cm long, weighs more that 500 gm and costs more than $1,000 USD!

I wrote it, but I can’t read it!!

Kyoto photographer Kosuke Okuda and I teamed up to do an article for the Russian travel magazine Afisha Mir (Афиша-Мир). I just got a PDF of the article — hot off the server!

In the article I introduced the long history of Aritsugu which was founded in 1560. Aritsugu is one of the most famous makers of traditional Japanese knives and they are found in good kitchens all over Japan. We focused on the special eel bone cutting ‘honegiri’ knife that is used for the traditional Kyoto summer delicacy of ‘hamo’ pike eel. The knife is over 40 cm long, weighs more that 500 gm and costs more than $1,000 USD!

I wrote it, but I can’t read it!!

Kyoto photographer Kosuke Okuda and I teamed up to do an article for the Russian travel magazine Afisha Mir (Афиша-Мир). I just got a PDF of the article — hot off the server!

In the article I introduced the long history of Aritsugu which was founded in 1560. Aritsugu is one of the most famous makers of traditional Japanese knives and they are found in good kitchens all over Japan. We focused on the special eel bone cutting ‘honegiri’ knife that is used for the traditional Kyoto summer delicacy of ‘hamo’ pike eel. The knife is over 40 cm long, weighs more that 500 gm and costs more than $1,000 USD!

I wrote it, but I can’t read it!!

Wow, Häagen-Dazs Japan has really outdone itself now! Out comes SpoonVege, vegetable flavored ice cream! (OK, it is fruit and vegetable.) This is completely new and just appeared a few weeks ago. I did a double take when I first saw it in the freezer case in the super market. SpoonVege comes in two flavors, carrot-orange and tomato-cherry. As you can imagine one is orange and the other is red. The taste of the veggies is definite and pronounced. It isn’t just fruity tasting ice cream with a little bit of vegetable juice added so they make a very eye catching name and package. Vegetable flavored ice cream is rather counter intuitive to me, to say the least, but both flavors where very tasty.

I have published quite a few postcards here about Häagen-Dazs Japan‘s novel flavors and products. Be sure to check them out!

Häagen-Dazs Japan SpoonVege Carrot-Orange and Tomato-Cherry Ice Cream
When I first laid eyes on these new vegetable flavored ice creams in the super market.

Häagen-Dazs Japan SpoonVege Carrot-Orange and Tomato-Cherry Ice Cream