{"id":30794,"date":"2013-06-28T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30794"},"modified":"2013-06-28T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T23:57:32","slug":"latest-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/28\/latest-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Akita mushroom curry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker <\/a>(Chiba<\/a>, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog<\/a>, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his\u00a0sixth installment, about Akita<\/a> Prefecture.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Akita<\/a>I would have identified the mushrooms in this curry as shimeji<\/a>\u2014a standard item at any Japanese supermarket\u2014but the ingredient label described them more specifically as buna-shimeji, or beech shimeji…<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s appropriate that I washed the curry down with some Buna no Mori (beech forest) beer, made with wild yeast originally collected in the forest. This 5-percent beer was slightly darker than a typical mass-produced Japanese lager, and had a flavor that was rich and strong…<\/p>\n

Read more HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his\u00a0sixth installment, about Akita Prefecture. I would have identified the mushrooms in this curry as shimeji\u2014a standard item […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70],"tags":[1048,833,1047,249],"class_list":["post-30794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-akita","tag-curry","tag-mushroom","tag-tom-baker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t