Learn to cook Japanese home style dishes with Japanophile food and travel writer Jane Lawson at the Cooks Cooking School in Bowral – March 21 & 22 2018
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Earlier this year I had the great pleasure of introducing Fermentation Guru Sandor Katz to just a small snippet of some of Kyoto’s wonders. He was on a mission to try some Funazushi (fermented sushi) so we tracked some down at a shop specialising in foods […]
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A couple of years ago one of my clients contacted me about coming along on one of my Japanese cuisine and culture tours. She was keen to join us but was concerned as she is coeliac. To be honest I was a little worried too… how the heck was […]
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Ever wondered what kind of deliciousness we get upto on a Zenbu Tour? The answer is pretty much anything and everything… as long as it is great! Japanese food is so varied – from the simple to the sublime, from the traditional and true to creative contemporary. […]
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In Japan, early summer is the time for making Ume-shu or Plum wine. When the plums are taken early from the tree for preserving. A sweet wine, more like a liqueur, it is delicious on the rocks, with soda or in cocktails and works well in […]
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I’m feeling like a farmer sans his or her favourite sheep. My lovely group and I have just finished an incredible 15 days together on the Zenbu Zen (plus) tour 2016. Alone for the first time in many months I’m enjoying the quiet of a friend’s apartment […]
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In Japan the cooler weather calls for deep bowls of hot, steaming noodles. Following is a very simple recipe for a standard “Kake Udon” ie Udon noodles with basic broth (Kakejiru). As with other Japanese noodles such as Soba, Ramen and Somen there are of course many […]
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If you are in the vicinity of Kyoto’s Ginkaku-ji (silver pavillion temple…. but not actually silver unlike the iconic Kinkaku-ji which is famously covered in gold leaf) its worth taking a little wander around the corner to find this gem. On the 2nd floor of a […]
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The good people of ABC Delicious Magazine have kindly allowed me to share the Global Flavours feature story I wrote and photographed for them a couple of years ago on Winter in Kyoto. (although some other clever person took this rare image of this vermillion bridge in the snow) If you […]
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Zenbu Zen takes you on a very personal ‘armchair’ escape to Kyoto, Japan with food and travel writer Jane Lawson. This book includes an informative, easy to read narrative with details about Japanese ingredients and plenty of authentic recipes. Plus the book is so beautifully […]
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