{"id":1755,"date":"2007-09-23T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/23\/itadakimasu\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T13:41:17","slug":"itadakimasu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/23\/itadakimasu\/","title":{"rendered":"Itadakimasu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner with my parents last night, we were talking about the dinners at <a href=\"http:\/\/japaneseguesthouses.com\/db\/takayama\/sumiyoshi.htm\">Sumiyoshi<\/a>, the <i>ryokan<\/i> we stayed at in Takayama. I haven&#8217;t gotten around to uploading those pictures yet, but I dug this one out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-fd67a3d5d33438434c7ce5fed2b33387-sm_big_dinner.jpg\" alt=\"i-fd67a3d5d33438434c7ce5fed2b33387-sm_big_dinner.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the best picture of Kate, but she does provide a sense of scale&#8230; It was a great meal&#8211; sashimi, tempura, beef cooked at the table, fish, pickles, miso soup, and probably some other things I&#8217;m forgetting.<\/p>\n<p>There was also this from the next morning:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-2f84d6d9d27c7256f3908fcb70fa5a74-sm_toaster.jpg\" alt=\"i-2f84d6d9d27c7256f3908fcb70fa5a74-sm_toaster.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which really just begs to be captioned &#8220;I Can Has Toaster,&#8221; but discretion is the better part of valor.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast was served in the room, and while I decided to be daring and try the Japanese-style breakfast, Kate opted for the Western option. She was absolutely delighted when the proprietor came in with a basket of bread and a toaster, so she could get the bread exactly the way she likes it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese-style breakfast was actually quite good, though not necessarily what I would&#8217;ve thought of as breakfast&#8211; cold grilled fish, rice, miso soup, and vegetables in miso paste grilled on a magnolia leaf. The only conventionally breakfast-like thing was the eggs, and I don&#8217;t like eggs, so I could&#8217;ve done without that. The miso was great, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner with my parents last night, we were talking about the dinners at Sumiyoshi, the ryokan we stayed at in Takayama. I haven&#8217;t gotten around to uploading those pictures yet, but I dug this one out: It&#8217;s not the best picture of Kate, but she does provide a sense of scale&#8230; It was a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/23\/itadakimasu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Itadakimasu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-japan","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}