Hi:) How have you been doing?
First of all, do you know the meaning of the title?
It is a Japanese word, mainly from Okinawa prefecture. It means "Eat only until 80% full".
These days, a large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. Healthy eating habits, exercise, and low stress, as well as a community commitment enables them to live longer. I usually eat as much as I can, so when I heard about the health habits in Okinawa, I had to think again about my eating habits.
By the way, do you know Okinawa cuisine? It is a little diffferent from Washoku.
There are some interesting ingredients like Spam, Red sea bream, Goya, Taro, Yam leaf, Yomogi, Tsuru Murasaki and Seakwasar citron juice.
Goya Chanpuru is well know as Okinawa cuisine. It is a dish made like this. Stir-fried goya with tofu, a little bit of pork and egg. Goya is very bitter vegetable, so you can make it mild within eggs.
Also, Tsuru Murasaki is popular among Okinawans and they are mainly eaten with citrus flavored vinegar.
There are many traditional cuisines all around Japan to each prefectures. If you are interested, it might be good to search them!
Thank you for reading♪
2017年1月21日土曜日
The New York Times article about a restaurant
Hello:)
This time, I am writing a review about an article in The New York Times. The article writes about a french restaurant in Downtown, New York.
Restaurant Review: Dirty French on the
Lower East Side
1.
The opinion of the reviewer
Title”
Restaurant Review: Dirty French on the Lower East Side”
Readers can know
what kind of restaurant it is only throughout the title. It only gives us the information
that it is dirty, French restaurant and it is located in the Lower East Side,
but it is enough for knowing what the restaurant is like.
2.
Description of the physical
surroundings
There are two eight-foot-high neon signs in peep-show pink, which is
written DIRTY in one of it and FRENCH in the other one. Near the restaurant,
there is Carbone and next to it is ZZ’s Clam Bar.
3.
Variety of foods and beverages
on the menu
・Hallowed basket of levain or baguette à l’ancienne in favor of a
flatbread
・Mille-feuille, which is a technical showstopper, an accordion of
ribbon-thin king trumpet mushroom stems folded over and over
・Thai curry
・Glorious lamb carpaccio
4．FacilitiesA dining room decorated with a few shoestring-budget items, like a wall-length antique carnival mirror shipped from France, which was thrown oozing slicks of wax. Also, there is a bar which is splotched with ink.
I have never been there, but I can know that it is "dirty". But the shop must be very fashionable. I would like to visit there someday! If you have been there, please let me know, and tell me what it was like:)
Thank you so much for reading!
Final Book Report
Hello readers! I finally finished reading the book "The Language of Food; A Linguist Reads the Menu". I started reading in October, so it took me about three months to complete it.
From now on, I will write about a chapter I found interesting.
The chapter title is "Macaroon, Macaron, Macaroni". Only within this title, what kind of impression did you have? I know. All words begins with the letter "maca".
Yes, your guess was true. All these words come from the same food. The origin is Macaroon. Macaroon is a sweet made from almonds. They look like shells, and that image jumped to pasta. I think you have seen them at least once, but there are pasta in the shapes of shells. That kind of pasta have been called Macaroni, taking "maca" from macaroon.
Until I read this book, I have never realized the connection between these kind of foods. Throughout this book, I could find out the original meanings of each food names, and they were very helpful to higher my English abilities. I really appreciate to my teacher who told me to read a book that I am interested in. The choice of a book I made seemed to be perfect, after all.
Thank you for reading until the bottom of my blog. Let's meet again:)
From now on, I will write about a chapter I found interesting.
The chapter title is "Macaroon, Macaron, Macaroni". Only within this title, what kind of impression did you have? I know. All words begins with the letter "maca".
Yes, your guess was true. All these words come from the same food. The origin is Macaroon. Macaroon is a sweet made from almonds. They look like shells, and that image jumped to pasta. I think you have seen them at least once, but there are pasta in the shapes of shells. That kind of pasta have been called Macaroni, taking "maca" from macaroon.
Until I read this book, I have never realized the connection between these kind of foods. Throughout this book, I could find out the original meanings of each food names, and they were very helpful to higher my English abilities. I really appreciate to my teacher who told me to read a book that I am interested in. The choice of a book I made seemed to be perfect, after all.
Thank you for reading until the bottom of my blog. Let's meet again:)
The Third Burger
Restaurant Evaluation of "The Third Burger"
Hi! Today, I will introduce you my favorite restaurant in Tokyo.
It is a hamburger shop called "The Third Burger". I usually don't eat hamburgers, but sometimes I feel like eating hamburgers there because they are really tasty, and the brilliant point is that they are not oily.
This is the Time, Event and Comment Log about my visit:)
I want to visit there again! If you are interested in it, I would highly recommend you to visit!
2017年1月19日木曜日
Poem "Mushroom"
Hello! How are you doing?
Today, I want to share a poem I introduced in my English class.
The poem title is "Mushroom" and it was written by an American writer, Mary Oliver.
Let me tell you about the author first.
Mary Oliver was born in Ohio, America in 1935, and she published her first collections of poems, "No voyage and other poems" when she was 28. In 1992, she won the National Book Award. She writes poem about the nature and the environment issues.
The poem describes about mushrooms, as you realize from the title. The mushrooms growing on a dark greenish, damp ground...what can you imagine? The main theme of this poem is "silence". The words wetness, quitetide and fall mornings makes us think about the location.
What kind of place do you imagine through these words - "mushroom" "forest" "wetness" "quitetide" "fall mornings"?
In my brain, I imagined the world of an animation movie called "Momonokehime" by Atsushi Miyazaki. Do you agree with it or not? Please let me know:)
There are no truth of false in the imaginary world. This poem makes me realize the forest, where the humans have not stepped in yet.
Why don't you make an imagination of the places mushrooms can grow?
Thank you for reading until the bottom of this blog!
Today, I want to share a poem I introduced in my English class.
The poem title is "Mushroom" and it was written by an American writer, Mary Oliver.
Let me tell you about the author first.
Mary Oliver was born in Ohio, America in 1935, and she published her first collections of poems, "No voyage and other poems" when she was 28. In 1992, she won the National Book Award. She writes poem about the nature and the environment issues.
The poem describes about mushrooms, as you realize from the title. The mushrooms growing on a dark greenish, damp ground...what can you imagine? The main theme of this poem is "silence". The words wetness, quitetide and fall mornings makes us think about the location.
What kind of place do you imagine through these words - "mushroom" "forest" "wetness" "quitetide" "fall mornings"?
In my brain, I imagined the world of an animation movie called "Momonokehime" by Atsushi Miyazaki. Do you agree with it or not? Please let me know:)
There are no truth of false in the imaginary world. This poem makes me realize the forest, where the humans have not stepped in yet.
Why don't you make an imagination of the places mushrooms can grow?
Thank you for reading until the bottom of this blog!
My Cooking...Fried Rice!
Hi, and Happy New Year! I hope all of you have a cheerful 2017, and I would appreciate if you continue reading this blog.
As I noticed as a title, today, I will introduce my cooking. The recipe is... Fried Rice! Do you like them? If you are keen about it, just try them:)
First of all, let's check out the ingredients.
Rice(2cups), Ground pork(300g), Cabbage(1/2), Egg(3), Dried young sardines(as much as you want) and spring onion(1.5).
And the seasonings are, soy sauce(3 tablesppons), oyster sauce(1 tablespoon), Sake(3 tablespoons) and Salad oil(1 tablespoon).
If you are ready, start cooking!
1. Cut the cabbage into bite-size. Then, put it in a bowl and cool it in the refrigerator.
2. Cut the spring onion into pieces.
3. Preheat the frying pan and pour in one spoonful of salad oil.
4. Stir fry the ground pork.
5. Break three eggs into a bowl and beat them.
6. Pour the eggs into the frying pan, and put boiled rice without taking time.
7. Blend all of them with the gas turned low. When doing so, it goes well if you mush them!
8. Put spring onion and mix them.
9. Turn off the heat and pour in one spoonful of oyster sauce, three spoonful of soy sauce and three spoonful of sake and blend them.
10. Put cabbage and dried young sardines and mix them.
And it's done!
If you are interested, just rush to your kitchen and start cooking right now!
Thank you for reading:)
As I noticed as a title, today, I will introduce my cooking. The recipe is... Fried Rice! Do you like them? If you are keen about it, just try them:)
First of all, let's check out the ingredients.
Rice(2cups), Ground pork(300g), Cabbage(1/2), Egg(3), Dried young sardines(as much as you want) and spring onion(1.5).
And the seasonings are, soy sauce(3 tablesppons), oyster sauce(1 tablespoon), Sake(3 tablespoons) and Salad oil(1 tablespoon).
If you are ready, start cooking!
1. Cut the cabbage into bite-size. Then, put it in a bowl and cool it in the refrigerator.
2. Cut the spring onion into pieces.
3. Preheat the frying pan and pour in one spoonful of salad oil.
4. Stir fry the ground pork.
5. Break three eggs into a bowl and beat them.
6. Pour the eggs into the frying pan, and put boiled rice without taking time.
7. Blend all of them with the gas turned low. When doing so, it goes well if you mush them!
8. Put spring onion and mix them.
9. Turn off the heat and pour in one spoonful of oyster sauce, three spoonful of soy sauce and three spoonful of sake and blend them.
10. Put cabbage and dried young sardines and mix them.
And it's done!
If you are interested, just rush to your kitchen and start cooking right now!
Thank you for reading:)
2016年12月9日金曜日
Video "Crisps or Chips? - Debatable - BBC Brit"
Hi readers! Thank you for visiting:)
Today, I will share you a video, which is related with the book I am reading now. The book is "The Language of Food: A linguist reads a menu" and it was written by Dan Jurafsky. In one of the chapter, I found a column written about the difference between the names of Chips and Crisps.
To make you understand clearly about the difference between them, I found a video talking about the theme. It seems to be similar within the contents of the book, so if you are interested, please watch it!
Thank you for reading!
Today, I will share you a video, which is related with the book I am reading now. The book is "The Language of Food: A linguist reads a menu" and it was written by Dan Jurafsky. In one of the chapter, I found a column written about the difference between the names of Chips and Crisps.
To make you understand clearly about the difference between them, I found a video talking about the theme. It seems to be similar within the contents of the book, so if you are interested, please watch it!
Thank you for reading!
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