Did we find rhubarb? None fresh/raw, it is too early for that, but I bought three kinds of jam, cakes (for U's parents), chips, juice, and gelato! Yummmmmm! I'm one super happy camper!
Friday, 4 May 2012
Stop Four
Stop four was because I am my paternal grandmother's granddaughter. Nagano is famous for its soba noodles but it also, among other things, produces rhubarb. A quick google search led me to the Nagano JA (Japan Agriculture) website's rhubarb page where I discovered a likely source in the Shinano-machi Michi-no-eki (literally "street station," a rest stop like area that showcases local produce and other items).
Did we find rhubarb? None fresh/raw, it is too early for that, but I bought three kinds of jam, cakes (for U's parents), chips, juice, and gelato! Yummmmmm! I'm one super happy camper!
Did we find rhubarb? None fresh/raw, it is too early for that, but I bought three kinds of jam, cakes (for U's parents), chips, juice, and gelato! Yummmmmm! I'm one super happy camper!
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Nagano is famous for rhuburb? Sarah, you make me laugh. I don't know anybody else who'd go traipsing all over Nagano looking for ... rhubarb!
ReplyDeleteYou need to drink shochu and umeboshi for your cold, or else Masumi. ;)
Well if you're already driving six hours for a pile of stone that may or may not even exist then what is an extra twenty minutes for yummyness that reminds you of your grandmother?! (in an aside I would have said yummy fruit, but the everywhere I saw it in Nagano rhubarb was classified as a veggie, which surprised me!)
DeleteWhat your grandma would think of all this! Lorenz is also a big rhubarb fan, which reminds me that it's almost time to make a strawberry-rhubarb tarte...
ReplyDeletelove and hugs, Cath
She'd probably have thought I was crazy to go to these lengths and buy THREE jars of jam, but I bet she would have appreciated the lack of strawberries or other fruit diluting the rhubarb!
DeleteCan you send me a slice of that tarte?! Yummmmm!