Ingredients Category

Clearspring Miso Tasting

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Who’s up for a miso tasting? Out went the Twitter call and, after the mandatory scheduling kerfuffle that comes with getting eight or so Londoners to the same place at the same time on any given day, we duly descending on the home of Helen (Fuss Free Flavours) to demolish her stash of Clearspring miso [...]

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How to Matcha

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“Do you want anything from Japan?  [Insert name here of family friend] is going in October, so get your orders in now.” Requesting a sample of the entire food produce of Japan seemed like a tall order, so I settled for a matcha whisk. Lo and behold, I’m now the proud owner of a proper [...]

Experiment: Hand-made Cha Soba

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In this Information Age where anything you can’t find on Wikipedia (or Facebook) isn’t worth knowing and where most arguments can be conclusively settled with a web-enabled phone and Google, it can be a disconcerting experience when, posed with a seemingly simple query, the World Wide Web shrugs its metaphorical shoulders and goes back to [...]

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