Gochiso Gourmet
The Gochiso Gourmet is a column on food, wine and healthy eating. Ryan Tatsumoto is a graduate of both the University of Hawai‘i and UC San Francisco. He is a recently retired clinical pharmacist and a budding chef/recipe developer/wine taster. He writes from Kane’ohe, HI and can be reached at gochisogourmet@gmail.com. The views expressed in the preceding column are not necessarily those of the Nichi Bei News.
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Malama i ka honua (Protect the planet)
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With worries about the economy, inflation, the stock market and anything else that affects our hard-earned dollars, the best thing you can is embrace the concept of mottanai or avoiding […] READ MORE
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Who passed gas?
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I still vividly remember a lesson learned when I was still a youngster on something you NEVER say to your spouse. Mom always planned the weekly meals and one of […] READ MORE
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Sake on steroids
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What is the most popular adult beverage consumed in Japan? I know you’re likely thinking it’s sake, but no, that’s #3. Like in America, Japan’s favorite libation is beer, but […] READ MORE
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Another serpent of a year
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Jan. 29, 2025 marks the beginning of the Year of the Wooden Snake, a time for personal growth, introspection and adaptability. The only personal growth I’ve noticed is that annual […] READ MORE
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The holiday memory road
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Now that we’re down one of the three big end-of-the-year holidays, we look forward to Christmas and finally the combo of New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. Growing up in the […] READ MORE
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Gift guide from the 50th
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This year’s gift guide will focus on the perfect product from the land where “palm trees sway.” Actually, the coconut rhinoceros beetle has put quite a damper on those trees […] READ MORE
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The healthiest vegetable
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On Sept. 12, my Yahoo! feed listed two brief articles — one from Food and Wine magazine, one from First for Women — stating that the Centers for Disease Control […] READ MORE
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Adulterated wine
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Though I love wine and distilled spirits, there’s another category of adult beverages that I can’t live without. They start life as wine but are then infused with various herbs, […] READ MORE
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A-maize-ing grain
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Long before the Americas were colonized, the native people propagated and subsisted on Zea mays, the true gold of the Americas; corn. The corn that we know descended from teosinte, […] READ MORE
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Nikkei wine
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In July 2022, Sequoia Sake hosted the Nikkei Wine event featuring wine from several Nikkei owned wineries, including B. Kosuge Wines, Paulownia Wine, Mikami Vineyards, Kanpai Wines and Six Cloves […] READ MORE
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