Osechi New Year's Day meal, 2017

Finally, I was able to make a tasty reduced-sodium version of ozoni soup, ganmodoki to warabi no nimono tofu patties and bracken…

Breakfast, January 1, 2016

Every year, while taking care of final prep for the big breakfast on January 1st, I harvest several camellia leaves in our garde…

A Non-Traditionalist Japanese Chef does New Year's

Tojo's Great Pacific Roll  Blog posts have a life of their own. You write them, forget about them, and then a day, week, a ye…

New Year's Feasting, Japanese Style

It was a full year ago when I reported this November-December 2011  Edible Manhattan article  on osechi-ryori , the traditional J…

Hunting for traditional Japanese osechi foods at New Year

 Nippon Club Chef Hideki Yasuoka's osechi box  For a fun assignment, I spent part of last week on the hunt for Japanese N…