Japan grapples with rice shortages, tourists saying no to phony Hawaiian luaus, and the annual collection of funny (yet edible) growths from forest floors.
Hirose-san is PREPARING his rice field BY HAND??!! 😱 will these Japanese ever cease to amaze me?! I'm really very pleased to hear that farmers are growing more rice this year. Even though I'm really sick of eating it myself, I know how important it is for the Japanese people.
In Guyana, we call it carila (pronounced ka-rye-la…goodness knows why we don’t just spell it like that). It’s an acquired taste. A foreign friend of mine said she hated it with a passion…and now she loves it and grows it in her garden.
NO need for an apology...at all. So glad you are back. Loved all the stories!
Frog’s Glen is my non-plane travel. I love every bit of it. I feel my insides sighing, relaxing.
Please don’t apologise. Just share a past story now and then, we will love it.
Rice shortage? The farmers in Guyana were complaining there was a glut, they’d planted so much rice, and prices had dropped. So they say.
Non plane travel and relaxing. I can ask for nothing more!
Hirose-san is PREPARING his rice field BY HAND??!! 😱 will these Japanese ever cease to amaze me?! I'm really very pleased to hear that farmers are growing more rice this year. Even though I'm really sick of eating it myself, I know how important it is for the Japanese people.
I almost forgot, we eat a bitter vegetable which I hhhhated as a child and now I LOVE it. Bitter melon.
Oh. Bitter melon is not a word that sells itself. Sounds like sour strawberry.
Haha yes, it’s not a good name.
In Guyana, we call it carila (pronounced ka-rye-la…goodness knows why we don’t just spell it like that). It’s an acquired taste. A foreign friend of mine said she hated it with a passion…and now she loves it and grows it in her garden.
Interesting. Think I might find fuki on the menu in Japan town S.F?
In SF? No, I distinctly do not. But hey you can raise a few eyebrows by inquiring!
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I recommend not confusing fuki with rhubarb and trying to make a pie with apple
That would be one Bitter Pie! Add heaps of sugar.