"edamame" news and stories

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When you're snacking on edamame, part of the experience is freeing the beans from their green pods. If they're for a dish, however, there's a quicker way to shell a soybean.

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Last week I showed you a Sakurako Kitsa masterpiece featuring a kimono-clad woman in front of a blue rice sky. Well this week I've got another lovely lady in Japanese attire, a geisha this time, captured from behind as she strolls off into a brown rice sky. Her kimono is salami with an Indian eggplant obi (sash) with kumquat and zucchini detailing. The nape of her neck, once considered the most erotic part of a woman's body, is rendered in emmental cheese, and she wears zucchini, salami and kumquat ornaments in her zucchini rind hair. In the other half of the bento are jewel-skewered edamame, kumquats, leftover korma decorated with a zucchini blossom, and a dessert of green tea-flavored Pocky.

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For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Today we've got another Sakurako Kitsa piece, an all-food rendering of a Japanese watercolor picture from the 1930s. A turkey woman with black food dye hair and face wears a kimono of mamenori (soy bean paper) with red food dye on a background of mozzarella. Behind her, mamenori sakura (cherry blossoms) with apple skin leaves drift through a sky of blue food coloring-dyed rice. On the side is a heart-shaped container of cranberries and edamame, a half a boiled egg with paprika, and sakura-shaped kamaboko (fish cake) dyed with pink food coloring.

I'm not sure I'd want to eat this, but I'd love to lacquer it and put it in a museum.

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A salmagundi is either an English dish that consists of chopped egg, ground meat, anchovies, onions and assorted spices or, more generally, a miscellaneous collection. So today, I bring you a salmagundi of links for the Slashfood Ate. These are links I've collected all week long, tasty bits that I've been holding on while I looked for a way to write about them.

1. For her birthday, Laura at The Kitchen Illiterate made Tuna and White Bean Sandwiches that have captured my attention and motivated my purchase of a can of cannelinni beans last night.
2. On Tuesday, Culinate posted a terrific interview with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of American Public Media's wonderful food program, The Splendid Table.
3. Over at Serious Eats, Robyn Lee posted a hilarious and wonderful stop motion "cooking" video called Spaghetti Western. This one is a definite must watch.
4. Geekadelphia found a cache of retro cereal box images. My favorite? Cocoa Hoots!
5. PAgent twittered this link over to me yesterday and it has gone straight to the top of my 'must make' list. Because how can you live until you've tasted coffee jell cubes?
6. Starting at the end of this month, the folks from Epicurious will be touring farmers markets in five US cities. They've created menus for each market and I'm particularly thrilled, cause they're coming to Philly.
7. The Homesick Texan has the ability to stir up cravings inside of me that I didn't even know were possible. Now I can't stop thinking about carnitas.
8. And lastly, did you hear that a bunch of new food-related words are going to be in the 2008 edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary? The list includes edamame, pescatarian, phytonutrient and prosecco.