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LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD

Oct 4, 2001

A look at terror

www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive05 As modern journalism sinks ever deeper into its spoon-feed-me mentality, William T. Vollman, a novelist and magazine reporter, actually does the hard research. Before embarking on an assignment to Afghanistan to find out what the Taliban...

LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL

Oct 2, 2001

A natural cure for beer-induced exhaustion

By Midori Paxton and Hugh

Well, it's that time of year in Munich again. The liter-sized steins are being filled by beefy barmaids. Lederhosen and silly hats are being donned. The plaster demons of Herr Schichtel's horror show are fresh with newly sprayed cobwebs, while the calliopes roar and roller coasters whirl and turn.

LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU

Sep 30, 2001

Holy mackerel! That's quite a fish!

By Rick Lapointe

Above the counter of the small kappo-style restaurant where I apprenticed hung a small scroll inscribed with a seasonal poem that was changed at the beginning of every month. In October, the simple verse read, "Aki no saba, Wakasa umare, Kyo sodachi. (The autumn mackerel, born in Wakasa, raised in Kyoto)."...

LIFE / Food & Drink / NIHONSHU

Sep 30, 2001

Kame no O dreamin'

By John Gauntner

Kame no O is a sake rice that has recently become popular with a number of brewers around the country. While it may not lead to the elegant, refined and lively fragrances and flavors derived from that most hallowed (yawn) of sake rices, Yamada Nishiki, Kame no O lends sake a definite character and solid,...

LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE

Sep 30, 2001

As fate would have it

By Jude Brand

I love Tokyo. It is the most convenient city in the world. These days, you can get almost anything you want -- anywhere, anytime (except public transport after midnight). But first, you must find it in this chaotic city that sprawls through 23 wards -- each with its own urban hub and maze of back alleys....

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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Sep 30, 2001

Oh, to spoon under the silvery moon

By Robbie Swinnerton

The harvest moon is upon us, and where better for viewing it (God and the elements willing) than the terrace at Tsuki no Niwa, the aptly named "Garden of the Moon." Not only is it a marvelous setting, it's hard to believe it's in the heart of Minato Ward.

LIFE / Travel

Sep 25, 2001

No, really, it's completely unspoiled!

By Mark Schilling

Paradise in the South Pacific? Isn't that only ad copy for getaway resorts that put little beach umbrellas in the cocktails and charge prices the locals could only afford after a winning lottery ticket?

LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL

Sep 25, 2001

To know them is to love them

By Midori Paxton and Hugh

High summer. Sarasota, western Florida, and the bridges linking the Keys (off-shore islands) hum with traffic. Boutiques throng with tourists, construction cranes loom high, the beaches are peppered with sunbathers courting melanoma and the surface of the Gulf of Mexico is torn by Jet-skis.

LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU

Sep 23, 2001

A new kama meshi treat every season

By Rick Lapointe

Kama meshi is rice (meshi) cooked in individual little pots (kama) and often served table side directly from the cooking vessel. Seen since the late 1800s in Tokyo, this dish appears as a popular train station bento boxed lunch. The home-style version, takikomi gohan, is often prepared in an electric...

LIFE / Food & Drink / VINELAND

Sep 23, 2001

Wine loving in the city, from dusk till dawn

By Melanie Campbell-Drane

This week brings good news for wine lovers whose schedules tend toward the late end of the Tokyo grind. Nissin World Delicatessen has extended its hours to 8:30 p.m., and a new Shirogane wine bar is pouring until the wee hours.

LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE

Sep 23, 2001

Getting lost in the Shibuya triangle

By Jude Brand

When railways and expressways are carved through an existing urban grid, awkwardly shaped scraps of land are often left in their wake. In central Tokyo, if the fragment is big enough for a single room and a stairwell, something will be built. Architects need to think both laterally and vertically to...

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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE

Sep 23, 2001

Arossa: Best cellars Down Under

By Robbie Swinnerton

When a recent cover feature in a heavyweight U.S. weekly magazine assures us that New World vintages -- especially those from Down Under -- are giving the French (and Californians) a run for their money, then it's safe to say that Australian wine has arrived. But we in Tokyo have known that for a long...

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.

A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan

By Hanako Lowry

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