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A video showing one Japanese mom's tiny yet super-efficient kitchen.

How would you describe your kitchen, and what's stocked there?

This has nothing at all to do with Japan, or food, or anything else that I normally write about here. But I am putting it on this site in the off chance that it will be read by regular folk. That is, people who just happened to land here, looking for a recipe perhaps. It's not for web designers or developers or people who built stuff for the web. And it's certainly not for so-called "SEO experts".

But I just couldn't take it anymore.

Some weeks to go until spring, but in the meantime the scenery is beautiful.

My stepfather: accountant by day, Santa by nights and weekends.

How my late father related to a particular scene in the movie Tampopo.

This month's Japan Times article is about sweet potatoes*, which are called satsumaimo in Japanese.

From the age of 3 on, or so my mother says, I would always hang around the kitchen asking questions, tilting conatainers to my level, getting underfoot and in everyone's way. After about age 5, I was reluctantly given some small, low-risk things to do, like making panko from day-old bread, or filling the salt and pepper shakers.

In Japan, coffee is just as ingrained in everyday life as tea.

For this week's Monday Photos, I'd like to get just a bit technical and look at the suitability of the iPhone 4S as a serious camera for food bloggers.