iberico bar: true lard leaves no traces
by rameniac | 09 Mar 2011
Anyone who knows me well will likely know of my affection for Spanish cuisine, a passion which rivals and in many ways, surpasses even my love for ramen. Admittedly, I don’t eat noodles nearly as much as I used to. A steady diet of Mediterranean influence - fish and tomatoes, olive oil and beans,has replaced a lot of my gonzo noodle slurping in recent months. In part this has to do with health; all those fats and carbs have to go somewhere, and as relatively young as (I’d like to think) I am, it’s never too early to cut back on the calories and perhaps spare a few arteries in the process.
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pleased to meet me? ooh yeeah!
by rameniac | 16 Sep 2008
aw, c’mon. indulge me. this is as close as i’m ever gonna get to having peter saville design my album cover…
Ever wanted to meet the “rameniac”? Well, um… now you can?! 
In a desperate attempt to ride my fifteen minutes of fame into the sixteenth minute, yours truly will be appearing at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday the 28th of this month. I’ll be guesting on a panel entitled “Feed Your Muse: Food, Creativity, and Writing,” alongside Marilyn Friedman, Jonathan Gold (yes, that one), and Laraine Newman and moderated by KCRW’s Evan Kleiman in conjunction with Writing Pad.
Apparently, there will be a signing as well, and since I don’t exactly have a book out (yet!), feel free to bring your empty ramen packages, love letters, record contracts, or exposed body parts and I’ll be more than thrilled to sharpie ‘em all up. Heck, I’ll sign anything, even that sandpaper first edition The Return of the Durutti Column vinyl LP you’ve got laying around. You know, the one, hand-glued by the members of Joy Division, that brings the party to a grinding halt. Actually, if you gave that to me to sign, I’d just run off with it. The food fight starts at noon in the Writer’s Pavilion. Yeayurh.
they’re baaack…
by rameniac | 07 Sep 2008
Has it been a year already? Mitsuwa Marketplace is back with their annual Hokkaido Fair food festival. Regale yourself with the ramen stylings of Asameshi Maeda Honpo,
Sumire, and Santouka over the course of the next two weekends at various Mitsuwa Marketplace locations throughout the United States.
The schedule is as follows:
| Asamesh Maeda Honpo |
9/11(Thu) - 9/14(Sun)
9/18(Thu) - 9/21(Sun) |
Costa Mesa
New Jersey |
| Sumire |
9/11(Thu) - 9/14(Sun)
9/18(Thu) - 9/21(Sun) |
Torrance
Chicago |
| Santouka |
9/18(Thu) - 9/21(Sun) |
San Jose |
For all you Bay Area noodlers, the Mitsuwa website touts Santouka as having the
"#1 ranking in L.A." (gee, I wonder
where they got that idea? ^^) Asameshi Maeda and especially Sumire should just open permanent U.S. branches already and be done with it. The world would be a better place for sure.
