I certainly picked the best time for a traditional snake feast when I joined a group of foodies and wine connoisseurs to eat at a speciali...

With temperature still hitting the high 20's during the day even as we approached late November, it certainly didn't feel like we ...

As the shuttle van winding up the narrow road to Tsurunoyu (鶴の湯), where we would be staying on our second night in Nyuto Onsen-kyo i...

Enjoy a relaxing outdoor hot spring bath/onsen whilst watching snow flurries slowly falling down has always been something we would lo...

With a Christmas Eve dinner to host at home and another party at a friend's place a few days later, I decided to bake a couple of pies...

I made a fish chowder as one of the meals during the forty dollars a day "challenge" . It was the first cold(er) day of this win...

Just when I was plotting where we go to celebrate our wedding anniversary in early December, I remembered Chef Fabrice of Caprice mentione...

A good friend of ours invited us to their house for a potluck dinner recently, during which each family - there were 6 families of us - wo...