It's Obon, when most Japanese take time off and hit the road to go back to their hometowns, see old relatives and visit the family grave...

We're done putting stuff in jars. New this year is pickled ginger and blueberry liqueur. The ginger is ready to eat already - and it is ...

Now that we've finally gotten this whole election thing out of our system we can go back to vaguely disliking the ruling party - whoever...

We're making umeboshi this year in addition to the umeshū I wrote about earlier. Umeboshi are sour pickled Japanese plums; chewy but s...

The Obon holiday is upon us here in Kansai. Up to a whole week off where we're supposed to leave the city for our home towns to celebra...