Noodle-bar Party

I've been busy enough to neglect my blog for weeks. In my defence I have to say that I'm passing through a very hard period of my life and I hope it will be better soon.

There are 2 things that cheer me up at this moment:
- a brand new experience I started last week: I'm the teacher of Japanese language for 4 great Italian students;
- this styling proget I found on Poppytalk >> a Noodle-bar party idea from Ideas Magazine (July 2013). Ceramics, newspaper sheets on the wall, colorful rice bowls and paper lanterns: I wonder whether I should decorate my own corner in this way...

Cantine Luoghi Incontri

"Cantine Luoghi Incontri" is a precious volume I jealously guard in my library. Published in 2012 by Antiga Edizioni it was cowritten by Marco Milan and Kumiko Yamada as a contemporary Grand Tour around wine, food and culture all in between Italy and Japan.

 
Supported by The Japan Foundation and Procaffè Spa, an espresso coffee roasting company located in my hometown, I finally got this book which, in effect, combines different Italian wine areas to likewise Japanese well-known traditional restaurants.
An example? A glass of sparkling white wine from the vineyard around Asolo (Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG) perfectly matches with an eel omelette (Umaki) cooked  at Izumoya, a specialized  in eel cusine restaurant in Chuo ward, Tokyo.


Pic © Moustaches

 

Yoriko Youda

To everyone loves lettering and illustrations. Seems to me that Yoriko Youda is having much fun playing with Hiragana!

Muji Purchases

I totally forgot to show you some items I got recently. The pictures not include a linen laundry box I have finally found at a well-furnished Muji shop, like the one in Rome is. My favourite treasure is the liquid glycerine soap. I chose the mandarin scent to remember the sweet sensation it gave me a same fragrance body cream I bought in Tokyo years ago.

P.S I can't wait to see the 2013/2014 Muji Life catalogue, actually.

How To Be A Modern Geisha #5

Finally! Here there is the 5th and the last tip of my curious guide! If you feel inspired and now you look like a geisha more than you'd really expect, well ... I hit the mark!

How To Be A Modern Geisha in review: #0 #1 #2 #3 #4

Madame Lolina

Madame Lolina is a super-talented artist. Her illustrated wishlist can be compared to mine for those Japanese gardening scissors I really wish I get sooner than later.

Yakitori Recipes Book

I must confess: I usually buy recipes books not because my will to cook something but for my attraction to beautiful pictures and, most of all, graphic layout.
I'm in love with Guido Tommasi Editore book series, so when I found out this Yakitori volume I didn't resist. I wanted it to be mine.
The recipes and stylist are from Motoko Okuno, a Paris based Japanese chef loving her home-country spit cooked meat tradition.
I won't probably cook anything of it, but this volume fits perfectly with my already well-furnished bookshelf!

Pics and collage © Moustaches