chips

About to head out on vacation for a week or so, requiring a purge of perishable food. One item was an entire package of lavash flatbreads from Trader Joe's that had been sitting around for several days but hadn't even opened yet. By experience, TJ's preservative-free baked goods are fiendishly vulnerable to molding within a very short time; these were still okay, but there wasn't much chance I'd eat them all before we leave. So I made them into snack chips.( Read more... )

Refsplats

Saw this link while trying to track down zougan stuff; it's a book about Japanese material culture from 1902. Haven't had a chance to look at it properly, but in the meantime might be useful to other people:

http://books.google.com/books?id=NO-zr99iRiwC&dq=brinkley+japan

Addendum:

The main text of http://books.google.com/books?id=VF-8kqXnpoIC&pg=RA1-PA326&lpg=RA1-PA326 is a handbook of colloquial Japanese originally written in 1908.