The most delicious curry of this year

I went a curry restaurant "curry Kusamakura" on December 28th with my friends of high school. He came tokyo from Niigata, my hometown. I enjoyed meeting again after long time.
This restaurant located in shinjuku, tokyo. The place is little difficult to find, but I could find and enjoyed curry.

Kusamakura was located in second floor of building. The signboard is yellow, we can find it easily if we in near this restaurant.  The outside appearance isn't so beautiful from this reason, but inside is very good. 

After I went up stairs, I found long line for waiting. I waited in stairs, but the smells of spices were very good from restaurant.
Somehow I entered in restaurant, we gave the menu of dishes. There are under 20 seats and the style are very different each. The interesting point is there are many unique books on the table in center of the restaurant. I found rare spice book of food and unique fortune books.
Before I wrote, this restaurant serve curry only, but the kinds are so many. There are curry that vegetalian can eat. After then, we were asked order and we ordered chicken curry in 3 levels of hot. My friends ordered 2 levels of hot. (There aren't limit of hot. I know the highest order is 100 from menu. I'm very afraid...) Chicken curry are most popular in Kusamakura. (The price is ¥750)

We seated sunken kotatsu style table. Shortly after, the curry was served with  japanese rice.

The taste is very organic but spicy. I felt onions are melting in curry. I think the style is between indian  and japanese. Chicken was very deep taste and tender. Rice isn't watery, so it suit with curry. I ate 2 levels mouthful, the taste was different from 3.

When we paid money to the staff, we were gave pine candy that are popular in Japan. I'm very happy and want to go again to order other curry.


Restaurant information:
新宿区新宿２－４－９ 中江ビル２階 curry 草枕
Lunch:11:30-15:00
Dinner:18:00-21:00
http://currykusa.com/

Genre Analysis

Hello!

I'm very sorry to absent this year's last class.
I was caused gastroenter last wednesday.
I want you to care about your diet again.

I'm going to go back to my hometown, Niigata in this winter vacation.
I know my hometown is covered with snow.
I want to do snow shobeling for my parents and neighbors.


Today I will analyze a restaurant review that "Patois: When this Jamaican-Chinese-Canadian kitchen goes off-menu, good things happen."(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/restaurant-reviews/patois-when-this-jamaican-chinese-canadian-kitchen-goes-off-menu-good-things-happen/article20578701/?cmpid=rss1)

Patois is Jamaican-Chinese-Canadian restaurant in Toronto.
Their contains chinese essense on the bottom, too.


Does the reviewer show any special "insider" knowledge of the chefs or the restaurants's plans for the future?
They didn't show any special "insider" knowledge about the chefs or the restaurant's plans for the future. But he introduced the chefs and the restaurant in very detail. We can read this review smoothly like watching television in our lives.


What is the writing style of the review?
I think his writing style is not so complex. It's like narration of television. Then he pointed out some problems of this restaurant. We tend to evaluate the taste of dishes only in restaurant reviews. But I feel these evaluation is essential.


Does the reviewer include a convenient grid?
No, they didn't show a convenient grid in this review. But they showed prices of the foods that they ate. I think if the grid is, this review will be more useful and understandable for visiting.


What additional information can you find out about the restaurant from their website?
I found business hours of them in New Year's holiday. They did facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We can check their special menu or special business hours form them. I think these SNS service are very popular around the world now, so their practical use connect to their prosperity.


Based on the review, would you and your partner like to try this restaurant?
I want to go to this restaurant. I came to know their furnish very delicious food in this restaurant. I'm interested in steak of this restaurant. But I'm worry about the volume of music. He wrote it is very loud. I think this is not so good for old people.




Next, I will analyze a video "Vegan Restaurant Review Sadie's Diner".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN09G0E5eV4


What is focused on in the review?
They focused on the dishes of "sadie's dinner". They ordered some foods and drink. From these things, we can know their restaurant style and taste in detail.


How does it differ from the written review in presentation and content? What does have it have in common among these two?
The biggest difference is there are two reviewers, Brock and Marta. They are husband and wife. They ordered different menu, so we can know more dishes than one person review.  And they didn't introduce the chef of restaurant. I could know the foods of this restaurant are very good, so I want to know the chef.


Are chefs, owners, managers, or restaurant staff featured in the video?
No, they aren't featured in this video. I think this is essential point of restaurant review from written review. I imagine the chef or staff aren't so bad from their enjoyable atmosphere. But I want to hear the opinions of chefs for their restaurant.


What criticisms do you have of the video?
I want feature the chefs or staffs of this restaurant. I think the taste of dishes are important, but the atmosphere is very important for eating or drinking. However I enjoyed their harmonious atmosphere.

Food Ethics

Hello!
I'm continue to reading "Food Ethics".


Today I will introduce a video related to my book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT0SwNXIsmo

In this video, many facts about food ethics in America are showed.
In the first half, McDonald's was introduced as an example of American food ethics. McDonald's growned a big food company today. For this growth, they had many developments. (ex. to have almost same menu around the world etc)

In the Middle half, the theme was changed to "How is this making people sick?"
These days foods are very related to be sick. Food is a essential for our body, so it's closely connect to us. Food poisoning caused many people sick in a short period time. The FDA(U.S. Food and Drug Administration) conducted foods safety.

Next theme is "Diabetes and Obesity". It showed us 99% of products at the super market are foreign products. There are 76 millions case of foodborne illness in America.(325.000 hospitalized, 5,000 death) Fast or processed food accout for American foods. It have the "fat" problem,too. This is the problem caused by McDonalds's, too.

In the last section of this video, the solutions are showed. People should eat locally grown foods. For this thing, the education is important for teaching children to what appropriate foods for us.

I think these education is need in Japan, too. Food poisoning are familiar problem from before. We should more careful about what we eat.

NeverSeconds

Hello! Winter will become soon, we should have more warmer ourselves and take care of not to cause cold.



Today I will analyze a blog "NeverSeconds".
http://neverseconds.blogspot.jp/

 
What do you think of Martha Payne and what she accomplished? 
I was very surprised at the writer of this blog is a little girl!
The content was too enrich and she accomplished to realize us food's importance and  priceless things in our lives.


What are your memories of your school lunches? 
I'm in mind that a campaign that served old style school lunches when I was a elementary school student in Niigata, my hometown.
I ate fried whale and I remembered the taste was very good.
But now, eating whale in Japan is becoming a world problem. 
I think this is very rare experience.


 Did you feel that you had any input on the nature or quality of your school lunches? 
I feel my elementary school had input on the nature.
I experienced rice and vegetable cultivation when I was two year student in it.
This is a good experience to know we eat foods by someone's efforts. 


What do you think of the dining facilities at AGU and how do you think they can be improved?
I think it is too crowd in lunch time every day.
The reason is not to exploit adequately the space of cafeteria.
The menu is good, so I wish only the use of space. 


What creative way(s) do you think we (individually or as AGU students) can help others in the world less fortunate than us...especially in connection to food?  
I think we should teach them to the plant cultivation method like former Bhutan.
Only supporting their food problem by giving our foods will become plunder problem.
But there are many bad places for growing food grain.
I think this is the most problem that we should find the solution by our technology.  
We should thanks to all opportunities when we can eat foods and should not leave foods after eating foods.

 
 



  

Book analysis

Hello!
It's getting colder these days.
We should take care of our health.


I'm continue reading "Food Ethnics", I understood a little about the history of food ethnics and what is it.

I read one section "Food Ethnics and Reality".
In this section, many professionals were introduced and defined their thought about food ethnics.

Their jobs are very various ; professor, agricultural scientist, the Trade officer etc.
They have different thought for food culture.
It was wrote concisely that they thought about the ralationship of food ethnics in our lives from way back.
This is interesting that the differences of theories ; scientifically idea, philosophycal idea etc.
I want to find the common point of those different theories in reading this book.


I'm in the second section "Food Ethnics and Utopia" now.
I knew people in old century wanted any utopia in food for salvation.

Analyzing food blog

I analyzed a food blog: Chasing Delicious http://chasingdelicious.com/

Russell van Kraayenburg is the editor of this blog.

This blog is not specialized, very various.

Quality:

 I think the quality of this blog is very high. The media that used in this blog are text, photos, and videos. We can leave comment on this blog, in other words, we can communicate with the editor and the team of this blog.

Usefulness:

 There are many useful recipes in this blog. There are party recipes, lunch recipes etc. Not only recipes, but also there are home & garden categories. From this thing, we can use this blog for many purposes of home.

 

Visual attractiveness:

 I think this blog is very legible and smart. We can search pages that appropriate our purposes. The design of this blog is very cool and refined.

Accessibility of the language:

We can read this blog on English only. I think it will be more useful if this blog can read on other languages.

How interesting is it to you personally?: 

I like this blog because of the design and good articles. I will use this blog's recipe for holiday's cuisine.

Inrtoduction

Hi! I'm Keisuke Morita.
I like many kinds of foods, but I often eat spicy foods in recently.
Today I will introduce my book which I chose for this blog.

Title: Food Ethnics
Author: Franz-Theo Gottwald, Hans Werner Ingensiep, Marc Meinhardt
Year of Publication: 2010

This book contains the relationships of food and ethnics from many views.
We can know again food relates many things in our culture and life around the world. In first section, he wrote about food ethnics in globalized world. In recently, our world is very globalized and we have many chances to know other country's culture. Food is a part of culture that show each country's special features, history etc. In the next section, argument about these topics are developed.

 Franz-Theo God forest is a German business and politics advisor, foundation expert, publicist and author of fold publications in the areas, ecological agrarian, and nutritional culture - consciousness - and futurology.