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As announced in the previous post, the festival of Washoku in Shizuoka prefecture was held on 18th and 19th in February. In this festival, multihued Japanese foods and traditional cuisines from all around Shizuoka were exhibited, provided and sold. Of … Continue reading
There are various events related to local teas in Shizuoka prefecture. Tea estates in Shizuoka have plans to hold various tea events, especially in the spring time from February to June. Today, I’d like to introduce these events. 2/18(sat), 19(sun) … Continue reading
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Washoku is the Japanese cuisine backed by the tradition and spirit of Japan. According to the definition of UNESCO, Washoku is a social practice based on a set of skills, knowledge, practice and traditions related to the production, processing, preparation … Continue reading
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Roasting can give teas additional aroma and change in flavor. We can roast loose leaf tea very easily by using toaster oven as follows. (1) spread loose leaf tea thinly on an aluminum foil. (2) Roast by using a toaster … Continue reading
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Japan has various new year’s events and traditions. For example, Japanese usually eat Soba noodle as a meal on the end of year, so-called “Toshikoshi Soba”, which means Soba for the change for new year. I prepared “Toshikoshi Soba” with … Continue reading
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Teas provide happy time with our precious ones. I’d like to recommend teas as candidates of Christmas present for your precious ones. Teas and confections on a table are the important catalysts to promote sweet or funny chin music over … Continue reading
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Arahata-en co. ltd., one of the most excellent tea processors in Makinohara, produces an unique and original Puer tea. The name is “Saryu SoSo” (I’d like to translate “Salut Sough Sough”, imaging walking around tea garden with seeing the sea of tea … Continue reading
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Matcha is one of the most usable ingredients worldwide. Latte, cake (as posted previously), various confections, bred, green sauce etc. Today, I’d like to introduce one of the recipes, “Kahlua & Milk with Matcha”. I met this cocktail in the … Continue reading
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In Kawane region, one of the finest quality of tea can be grown due to high altitude, large daily range of temperature, soil derived from sedimentary rock in later Cretaceous era, and of course, the sophisticated skill of tea masters. … Continue reading
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There are many steps to make Japanese green tea. Harvest, steaming, repeat of rolling and drying, sieving, size sorting, firing, etc. Especially, flavor of green tea remarkably depends on firing, as well as roasting of coffee. For example, “Oohashiri” and … Continue reading