The next hour just blew my mind. We sampled eight or nine different brands of sake, the exact number I really can’t remember.While the other is utilized their spit bucket, I couldn’t fathom the thought of wasting a single (hiccup) drop. Sidenote: You know when wine pros do wine tas...
Things like that happen in a room full of happy, buzzed sake brewers. Actually, I knew who it was going to be before I even heard the familiar voice. “Du-hu-hu-hu-de. I’m pretty hammered too-hu-hu-hu.” It was the relatively young toji (master brewer) at that kura. “We ...
Sake brewing today has become very scientific. But long ago, before the days of thermometers, hydrometers, and barometers, brewers relied entirely on their five senses to gauge the progress of a fermenting tank of sake. As a curious side note, one toji told me that they compared the accurac...
This eggless wonder pushed me out of my comfort zone to perfect the art of cake making without eggs, a concept I took time to get used to! There really is nothing you can’t do .. if you put your mind to it ! It woke me up .. just like Avicii’s song .. happy baking ♥...
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live O the wonderful cross, O the wonderful cross All who gather here by grace draw near and bless Your name Were the whole realm of nature mine That were an offering far too small Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my...
t entirely solidified until I see them play live. I want to obsess over the band for a week before the show, I want to talk about possible setlists with the people who are going with me to the show, I want to chat with strangers standing near me at the show, I want to see what...
Why should I have to sacrifice, all my life?Why should I go on pretending that just because I'm a married woman, I'm happy about living with myboringhusband?Who says I can't go out with another man if I want, if that is what makes me happy?
And here is where the story of the ‘Train Near Magdeburg’ will end, for now. When we talk about the Holocaust, the sheer magnitude of it, there is no happy ending. For every single one of the approximately two-thousand five-hundred persons on the train who was set free, another two...
So I said: ‘Give me an hour and I’ll have a nylon string for you’. But she pointed at the electric guitar on the wall and said she’d just play that. After we finished recording everything, she listened back and said: ‘Hmmm, it sounds a little strange w...
And here's some stone ground yuzu powder. Now I usually have this sent to me from Japan (or I buy it there), but it's nice to know it's available on this side of the world. The fragrance of this slightly coarse powder is wonderful, and the slightly bitter citrusy taste is addictiv...