I was in Osaka everyday for a week helping out on a story for Wall Street Journal Magazine about culinary...

Today's breakfast and lunch. Breaki is orange brioche and lunch is this yummy sandwich that is a weird mash-up of...

My order of habanero and jalapeno peppers arrived from Shino Farms in Kameoka. An uncommon vegetable in Japan. Next step...

For a long time, I have had unshakable confidence in my Chinese spiced tea eggs. In addition to heaps of...

This summer I covered the Daimonji Gozan Okuribi with Kyoto photographer, Kosuke Okuda. The Wall Street Journal article is published...

Häagen-Dazs Japan always has some interesting flavors. The most recent is in the Crispy Sandwich series and is called Strawberry...

Fellow Kyoto-ologist, Nemo, from +alpha Japan and I dropped in at one of my new favorite haunts in Kyoto -...

Today I went to the Kyoto Craft Beer Festival. It was smaller than expected but a pretty interesting experience. Craft...

The past week or so I have been enjoying the delicate fragrance of Kinmokusei (Osmanthus Fragrans) that are in bloom...

I saw a live performance of Nabowa at Kyoto live house, takutaku tonight. They are a jam band and I...