{"id":355,"date":"2006-03-27T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T14:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=355"},"modified":"2006-03-27T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T14:09:21","slug":"pacific_palate__2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/pacific_palate__2-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Palate &#8211; Cherry Blossom Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday morning on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificpalate.com\/shows.html\">Pacific Palate<\/a> I talked about the First Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcbf.ca\/\">Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.<\/a>&nbsp; Thanks to Paul Schellenberg, the festival&#8217;s marketing director, for coming in and bringing in the special bento box picnic that is being offered for a great price of $10 during the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Where there&#8217;s a festival, there&#8217;s food.&nbsp; In Tokyo, where celebrating the cherry blossom is an ancient tradition, some vendors sell takoyaki, fried balls of octopus. <a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/takoyaki0001_1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Takoyaki0001_1\" height=\"294\" alt=\"Takoyaki0001_1\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/takoyaki0001_1.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> Here is one vendor skilfully turning the takoyaki in their special cooking mold so that they cook evenly.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see how cherry blossoms can be used in restaurant meals, this time of year sushi master Tojo uses blossoms at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tojos.com\">restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is your last week to enter my &#8216;What&#8217;s the Strangest Food You&#8217;ve Ever Eaten?&#8217; contest, with copies of Taras Grescoe&#8217;s &#8216;The Devil&#8217;s Picnic&#8217; up for grabs as prizes.&nbsp; To view the contest page, click <a href=\"\/2006\/03\/food_for_though_2-16.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday morning on Pacific Palate I talked about the First Annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.&nbsp; Thanks to Paul Schellenberg, the festival&#8217;s marketing director, for coming in and bringing in the special bento box picnic that is being offered for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/pacific_palate__2-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-palate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}