by nguyentl | Jan 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Where does this food come from? This is the question that circulates through my mind constantly each day I am in Japan. On our first day when we were asked to think about the statement by Ian Miller, “We are all becoming alienated from our food,” I became curious. The...
by gianopou | Jan 11, 2016 | ARI, Community, Farming, Food
We woke up with the sun this Saturday morning to do some community work on the farm. My group’s responsibility was to climb into a pit filled with fermented corn, pass up buckets of the funky-smelling substance, and load it into barrels for relocation. Our shoveling...
by Grace Kueffner | Jan 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
During our morning foodlife activities today, the topic of cakes came up. Wedding cakes are a whole different animal from birthday cakes, we decided, not only because of how many people they must feed but also because of each person’s relationship to the guest...
by stewar2 | Jan 7, 2016 | Food
When we arrived in Tokyo mid-afternoon the 3rd of January local time, my sleep deprived and weary body didn’t know quite what to expect. I’ll admit, I snuck in some quick z’s on the train from the airport to Ikebukuro Station. But as soon as I exited...
by sugisaki | Jan 6, 2016 | Food, Tokyo
The first night in Tokyo’s Hotel Sakura Ikebukuro was fairly quiet; after a curry dinner in the hotel’s cafe, the inhabitants of Room 101, comprised of Dan, Marianne, and I, came back and prepared for bed. This is a quick sketch of the room, drawn the...
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