A JFEX Gem: Some Offerings from Shiino Foods

This week’s entry is another Intermission in our lengthy Days of Wine and Music series. If you are the type of person who scrapes the caviar off the cracker and eats the roe, who cuts the decorative buttercream flower from the center of the birthday cake and consumes it whole, or drinks the rum and … Continue reading A JFEX Gem: Some Offerings from Shiino Foods

A JFEX Gem: Yudanaka’s Blue Forest Ale

Japanese Cypress* This week’s entry is another Intermission in our lengthy Days of Wine and Music series. Well, it is late June when this is being written and that means only two things: 1) ultra-abysmal rainy-season weather and 2) JFEX, a huge food and beverage exposition that never disappoints. The venue for the former is … Continue reading A JFEX Gem: Yudanaka’s Blue Forest Ale