Feb 25

Chopsticks New York magazine update

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Make sure to check out JET alum contributions to Chopsticks New York each month!  The February issue has the following from Stacy Smith:

• Yoshiko Sakuma interview (translation)
• What’s New: Dainobu convenience store (from Stacy’s JET hometown of Kumamoto!)
• Onigashima/Momokawa restaurant reviews
• Shinto purification ceremony experience
• Don’t miss her article on specialty restaurant Curry-Ya, samurai boom and ume/yuzu shu translations and book review of The Housekeeper and the Professor in March.

This curry-themed (“New Comfort Food from Japan”) issue also features veteran writer Kia Cheleen (CIR, Aichi-ken 1996-98, ALT 1998-1999) in her regular Ask the Beauty Guru column, and introduces new Chopsticks JET alum contributor Lisa Birzen in her interview with Yuka Sato and restaurant review of Bibim Bar!