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January 2020 Tea Event Minamoto Kitchoan London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 25th January 2020
Time: 14.00– 17.00 (Please just pop in anytime during the event hours)
Admission: FREE Read more…
Book Review: Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook
Tokyo Stories is a journey through the boulevards and backstreets of Tokyo via recipes both iconic and unexpected!
Though having published other books (his humorous biographical essays ‘Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Dairies’, his own Brixton restaurant cookbook ‘Nanban: Japanese Soul Food’, and other cookbooks of classic and modern Japanese recipes; ‘Vegan JapanEasy’ and ‘JapanEasy’) Tim Anderson first began to impact on the public consciousness in the UK with his appearance on, and winning of, ‘Masterchef’ in 2011. Since then he has gone on to work as a freelance chef, food writer and consultant and is a regular contributor on Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube, the Kitchen Cabinet on Radio 4, and has appeared on various TV programmes such as Read more…
October 2019 Tea Tasting Event
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 26th October 2019
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
The Taste of Chūbu
Where ancient and modern coexist!
Chubu, the most central region of the main island of Honshū (Chūbu means central), is made up of nine prefectures; Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama and Yamanashi. At the region’s centre lie the Japanese Alps, made up by the Northern Hida, the central Kiso and the southern Akaishi mountains.
The region offers an extensive range of attractions to visitors, both domestic and foreign including gardens, castles and temples; the tradition and culture of geisha, traditional costume, samurai, festivals, events and fireworks; wellness through Read more…
August 2019 Tea Tasting Event
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 31st August 2019
Time: 14.00– 17.00
Admission: FREE Read more…
January 2019 Tea Tasting Event
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 26th Janusary 2019
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
October 2018 Tea Tasting Event
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 27th October 2018
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
September 2018 Tea Tasting Event
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 22nd September 2018
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
April 2018 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 28th April 2018
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
March 2018 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 31st March 2018
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
Book Review: The Way Of Whisky By Dave Broom – Photography By Kohei Take
‘Renowned whisky expert Dave Broom has been visiting Japan’s distilleries for the past 17 years and is recognised as a leading commentator on this fascinating whisky style… …Dave investigates what makes Japanese whisky Japanese, the secret of ‘Whisky-do’.’ (Octopus)
The first impression on seeing this book, even without opening it, was expensive coffee table book. At a glance it is beautifully put together with stunning photography by Kohei Take. Thankfully, on reading the Introduction it becomes obvious it’s so much more than that. It’s the Introduction that nails the aim of the book and it’s surprisingly close to a Buddhist concept, that of seeing the universe in a sheet of paper (what the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh calls ‘Clouds in Each Paper’) except in this case it’s applied to Japanese whisky. It’s in this typically Japanese approach, highlighted by Glaswegian whisky expert Broom’s analysis, that there is so much more involved than just the brewing process; an in Read more…
January 2018 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 27th January 2018
Time: 14.00– 19.00
Admission: FREE Read more…
December 2017 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 16th December 2017
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
Book Review: ‘The Meaning of Rice: And Other Tales from the Belly of Japan’ by Michael Booth
Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture.
If this book were food it would have deep umami undertones. Michael Booth has written yet another intriguing account of food, cooking and Japanese cuisine in Japan as an accompaniment to his earlier and just as his readable companion piece ‘Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know about Cooking’; a main course to his earlier amuse-bouche.
We re-join him ten years after his first book on a return trip to Japan with his family to explore some of the elements of Japanese cuisine left unexplored a decade earlier. Though at first not as liberally sprinkled with the tongue in cheek humour as ‘Sushi and Beyond’ Booth warms to his Read more…
October 2017 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 28th October 2017
Time: 14.00– 19.00
Admission: FREE Read more…
September 2017 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 30th September 2017
Time: 14.00– 19.00
Admission: FREE Read more…
August 2017 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 26th August 2017
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
July 2017 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 29th July 2017
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
June 2017 Tea Tasting Event At Minamoto London
Sample some of the best high quality Japanese teas available in the UK!
Venue: Minamoto Kitchoan 44 Piccadilly, London
Date: 24th June 2017
Time: 14.00– 18.30
Admission: FREE Read more…
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