Since I wasn’t able to head to sunny LA with Jared to visit his family for Christmas, I wanted to pick out some nice gifts for them. I stopped by Anthropologie and saw these amazingly cute aprons. Is it me or does anyone else suffer a little from sticker shock when you walk through the [...]

The other day Jared decided to peruse his favorite Japanese cookbook Shunju. The book is all about seasonal cooking. Cooking items that are in season brings out the best flavor. For the winter season, the book emphasized hot pot and seafood meals. One particular dish that intrigued him was the salt encrusted crab. Well any [...]

Oh ramen, my dear ramen. So, one of my food pet peeves is hearing tv or radio commercials reference ramen as the cheap crappy food that college kids survive on. That is NOT ramen. Cup noodles or even maruchan is not even close. It’s gross. I refuse to eat it- even if it’s 10 cents [...]

Exactly one year ago yesterday, Jared and I started Eat a Duck I Must! Our original goal was simply to document all the great dishes Jared cooks for us. Our first post was a one sentence “poem” accompanied by what now seems to us a horrendous photo of Oden. This was looooooong before we really [...]

Our final major food stop on our ZSAT 2009 (Zhao Super Asia Trip) landed us at back in Osaka and at Endo Sushi. We heard a lot about Endo Sushi from a few sources. The restaurant is located next to Osaka’s central market- which is Osaka’s equivalent to Tsujiki market in Tokyo. Being right next [...]