So my evergreen friend--who incidentally just got back from a trip to Nepal and has posted beautiful pictures and clever prose on her knitting blog--pointed me toward another food blog. While it is indeed a beautiful blog with beautiful pictures, it was highly envy inducing, and it wouldn't take to much to make me trade in the life of a boston grad student, for one of a culinary traveler in Japan (well, pretty much money is all it would take). Just think of how much you would learn just by eating and grocery shopping there. The variety of regional specialty produce is amazing. The agricultural system is like the other side of the looking glass from the U.S.'s large-scale, commodity, mass market agriculture. At least they have done something interesting, creative, and aesthetically appreciable with the enormous amount of subsidies given to farmers. At any rate, my first move after seeing this blog was to imagine up a japanese-inspired dinner that would sooth my envy and convince me that Boston offers enough possibilities for creativity and beauty for the time being (and use up some of what was in the fridge). The result was clams in miso broth with seaweed noodles, tofu, and shitake mushrooms.
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