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Authors: Miasha, 1981-
Title: Secret society
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Publisher: Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audio, Inc. p2010.
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It's naturalApril 27,2014Farmers and gardeners are ready to get going after a long, cold winter, rounded off by a long, cold month of April. Mid-April is ordinarily a target date for planting seed for early vegetables, such as peas and spinach, though many gardeners might have been persuaded to wait a little longer for warmer weather and warmer soil.
That Vermonters maintain a deep connection to the rituals of spring the preparation of soil, the planting of crops is one reason for the widespread interest in the bill passed by the Vermont House last week requiring the labeling of food made from genetically modified organisms. Agriculture is a process that ties people intimately with nature whether they are growing a few tomato plants in their back yard or acres of feed corn for their dairy herd. Commercial exploitation of the stuff of nature and tampering with genetic material seem like a worrisome violation of a cherished relationship between man and the world.
Requiring labels on food products is not going to end the use of GMOs or the power of Monsanto. It is likely that GMO labels will become so common that they are hardly noticed. Moreover, some GMO crops may over the long run prove useful, helping to enhance productivity to meet an expanding need in era when agriculture comes under new strains.
But the anti-GMO movement comes as revival of interest in what might be called traditional agriculture is reshaping the state. For generations dairy has been king in Vermont, and it is still king in terms of economic impact. But among young people looking for entry into a life on the land, dairy is not necessarily the easiest way to get started. It is capital-intensive and subject to the demands of commodity agriculture in which large-scale production becomes necessary to survive.
As young farmers look for other ways to make a living on the land, they are revitalizing the agricultural sector in Vermont. Vegetable and fruit crops are increasingly grown locally, and the proliferation of farmers markets and other outlets are making local crops more readily available. Dairy of a different sort is having an impact, making Vermont a center for fine cheese made from the milk of cows, goats and sheep. This is economic development that is real and is bringing new life to small towns where growers are active participants in the life of their communities.
Where there is a niche, people are trying to fill it. Thus, as Vermont has become home to numerous small micro-breweries, some growers are experimenting with whether it is possible to introduce the growing of hops in the state.
Enterprise of this sort respectful of the land, unwilling to scale up too rapidly and too extensively, happy to focus on quality and local markets is antithetical to the sort of agriculture that looks to new, patented seeds and the regimen of chemicals that go with them. It is becoming more widely understood that reliance on chemicals to kill pests or curb disease also kills the biological life of the soil, which is the basis of everything. Vermont farmers, growing on a small scale for local markets, are naturally wary of these industrial processes.
Labels on packages are not going to dent Monsantos profits too deeply. But Vermonters are cheering the GMO bill as a statement. Its a statement that says: OK, youre out there growing GMO corn and other crops, and thats a particular thing that were not especially interested in. Good luck in developing crops that can help bring down food prices and make food more readily available in impoverished nations, but as for us, we are doing well the natural way.
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It is easy to conclude that something is not harmful, until the harm is evident. Tinkering with the genetic makeup of species has the potential of touching off unpredictable ecological effects. And not nearly as much research has gone into an examination of those potential effects as has gone into the profit-making potential of modified seed.
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The latest mini-war between Israel and Hamas is as unwinnable for either side as previous rounds in 2009 and 2012. Though it has stockpiled thousands of rockets and some longer-range missiles, Hamas lacks the ability to inflict serious damage or casualties; a new anti-missile system has blocked most of the warheads. Israel can target Hamas commanders and infrastructure in Gaza but probably can't entirely silence the rocket launchers. A ground invasion of Gaza would cause heavy casualties and, if it destroyed Hamas, leave Israel with the task of governing the territory and its nearly 2 million people.
Both sides thus seem to be playing for tactical rather than strategic gains. Israel would like to reduce the military power Hamas has built up. Hamas hopes to win concessions, including release of operatives recently rounded up by Israel and opening of its border with Egypt.
Those goals hardly seem worth the bloodshed or the economic losses to both Palestinians and Israelis. In fact, neither side wanted war. Hamas had just agreed to back a united Palestinian government with the West Bank-based Fatah movement, while Israel quietly offered a truce before the escalation of hostilities on Sunday. As so often happens in the Mideast, acts by extremists forced these events: the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers allegedly by Hamas militants apparently acting on their own; the revenge murder of a Palestinian by Israeli thugs; the initial firing of rockets from Gaza by small militant groups challenging Hamas' authority.
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Rick Carpenter, 48, puts another protest sign in front of his East Ridge duplex in this file photo. Carpenter and his wife, Anna Grace, 35, have no running water after their meter was removed for failing to pay sewer fees on their water bill.Photo by Tim Barber.
One East Ridge man's two-year battle against the sewer authority may soon end.
At a trial set for today, Chancellor Jeffery Atherton could decide whether Rick Carpenter and his wife will have to pay the Hamilton County Water and Waste Water Treatment Authority up to $700 for old sewer bills — and whether the authority has to start accepting cash payments for customers who want to avoid paying service fees.
The authority sued Carpenter and his wife, Anna Grace Carpenter, in March over a $563.37 sewer balance that was more than two years old. The WWTA says that total is now $700.
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As lenders converged to seize her winery and her beloved 45-room
Albemarle House, she found a way to seize an opportunity– to get a
longtime chum who also happens to be America's top dealmaker to
deliver a new message: This land is now… The Donald's land.
That's the point conveyed by dozens of no-trespassing signs
recently erected by the man who turned "You're fired!" into a
catch-phrase and whose books on real estate include such titles as
How to Get Rich and the memorable Think Big and Kick
Donald Trump has brought his hard-bargaining style to the
Charlottesville area.
By purchasing the fields surrounding Albemarle House and letting
the grass grow high, Trump (as first reported by the Wall
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buyers that the 23,000 square-foot mansion might have many
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penetration, a Class 4 felony.
On July 7, he received a 12-month sentence with four months
suspended. Anderson also was found guilty of public drunkenness,
and ordered to not consume alcohol for a year.
"I was pretty happy with that," says the victim, Caitlin
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Mahoney was outraged that such an intimate assault was a
misdemeanor, and says she's talked to state legislators about
changing the statute on sexual battery, which she believes is
"You can molest someone and not be on the sexual offender
registry," says Mahoney. "That doesn't make sense to me."
She calls Anderson's behavior "outrageous," and thinks such
attacks are a serious problem in Charlottesville.
And since the attack, "things have changed for me in a bad way,"
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The options for doing yoga in Charlottesville already run the
gamut from relaxing Hatha to vigorous Ashtanga to oh-so-sweaty
Bikram, performed in a heated room. Jacqueline Wilde saw an
opportunity to stretch the offerings even further with a new
business that'll have participants downward dogging in outdoor
public spaces around town.
"I'm targeting yoga toward beginners," says Wilde, a 27-year-old
second-year Darden student who launched the appropriately named Pop
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"I prefer being outside, says Anthony Zammitt, a 32-year-old
longtime martial arts practitioner who was trying yoga for the
first time with Wilde on Saturday morning, July 9 at the
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After a spirited bidding war that included
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best-known developers and from the company that may have created
the concept of the upscale filling station, a heretofore
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new wave of upscale gas stations. But after the Thursday morning
auction, it appears on its way to trade hands for about half its
assessed value.
With a winning bid of $580,000, Subhash "Sam" Desai outbid
developer Keith Woodard and David Sutton, leader of Tiger Fuel, the
petroleum company that, with its Bellair Market, appears to have
the notion of selling fancy foods at gas stations.
"There are a lot of problems with the property," said Sutton,
explaining why he halted his bids at $575,000. "This has been a gas
station for 30 or 40 years, so there's no telling what's in the
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Despite landmines, kidnapping, assassination and death by dehydration and starvation, thousands of determined Shiite Muslims have been pouring across the Iran-Iraq border since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government. Some estimate as many as 3000 a day make the journey. They risk their lives to visit the holy city of Karbala, 80km south of Baghdad, the site of the shrine to the seventh-century Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohamed. The determination of the Shii'a pilgrims confronts the Iranian government with a plethora of logistical problems. Revising border security, emigration policies, relationships with Iraq, and facing hostile coalition forces, the government remains stranded between its allegiance to Islam and the intention to assert its authority. Amid the disorder in the border city of Mehran, Bahman Kiarostami (son of renowned Iranian director and MIFF 03 guest, Abbas Kiarostami) illuminates facets of Iranian history, culture, religion and politics. [Pilgrimage] is a poignant, bizarre and often startling documentary film examining an intriguing religious phenomenon.
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hey all-
having a 20 person bbq- and looking for something more than burgers/dogs, but wanting to not drop a bundle.
Some guests won't do beef, some won't do seafood.
Any ideas?
You can do some beef, some shrimp, some chicken, and some all veggie.
I recently saw where if you do veggie only kabobs and protein-only kabobs, apparently its easier to get the veggies and particular meat to cook to the correct level of doneness... rather than alternating protein with veggies on the same stick and trying to pre-cook veggies or trying to get your pepper to cook completely while your shrimp is turning to rubber, etc
jfood would recommend boneless chicken breast (bone your own breats to save lots of money) and skirt steaks (if you cannot fond skirts go with flanks). Marinate them in the fridege and onto the grill when needed. They both take about 6-8 minutes on the grill.
Prior to make a nice salad and get some corn on the cob.
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Second pulled pork. $99 a pound at the local Latino bodega. If you don't have a dedicated smoker, you can pull it off using a Weber grill, albeit with a little more maintenance.
Country Style Pork Ribs - Inexpensive, meaty, and easy to cook whether grilled, low & slow, oven, or crockpot.
If you are adept at all things bbq, then spares, and beer can chickens, or nicely marinated chickens are both super cheap, and not at all time consuming (as far as actually having to tend do the food.) I might even think about doing a side of salmon, or lake trout as well.
One thing I like to do is skirt steak, and boneless skinless breasts and thighs, and set up a taco bar thing. A fish would also work well. Timing is the downside of this, as you'd want all of your guests to be eating at the same time.
Tip for whole chickens - stuff the cavity with kefir lime leaf or lemon balm leaf to permeate the flesh with a nice citrus hint.
I'd probably go with spares/chicken/fish, and the standard sides plus a killer fruit salad.
I made Batali's Citrus chicken under a Brick and it was fantastic. Also, made a nice garlic, olive oil, lemon marinade for lamb and also used the same marinade for lamb kebabs. I bought a bone-in leg of lamb and it was a lot of meat - I had 3 recipes from it. Pork butt is really cheap, too, but it is so fatty I might just do it in the oven and pretend it was on the grill ;)
When I want inexpensive fresh meat or seafood I head to the Chinese store. For a mixed grill I would include things not already mentioned like spare ribs (they'll cut to size) pork shanks or fresh hocks, tripe, marrow bones, and maybe even a pork belly if there is a low and slow part to the grill. Head on shrimp and a box of squid tubes will complete the bill
Sometimes I do a cedar-planked pork loin. Pork is really cheap around here, I can get a whole or half loin for as little as 1.47lb. I brine the loin for about 1hr, then slowly cook it on the soaked( for 24hrs) cedar plank. I might sprinkle on a grill blend. When its almost ready, I brush with a mix of a high quality bbq sauce mixed with some terriyaki or just terriyaki and some OJ.
on Mother's day, I did 2 beer can chickens. I used empty cambell soup cans instead though because they;re sturdier. I got the whole chickens for .69lb at Meijer in MI. I used Cook's Illustrated rub and method and they were fantastic. Check out the pics on my foodblog. 2girlsinthekitchen.blogspot.com.
Skirt steak I find can be surprisingly expensive (although very tasty). One thing we did recently that wound up being less per pound than organic chicken or the skirt steak was brisket. Cooked majority of the way in the crock pot and then grilled - wow. Super tasty. You could do that and then some veggie kabobs (shouldn't be too expensive for those). Grill up some corn on the cobb, possibly add a potato salad or something along those lines.


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Argentina's triumph in 1978 and Italy's in 1934 were said to be influenced by military leaders seeking propaganda coups.
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Impiglia presented a paper suggesting Benito Mussolini ensured favorable refereeing decisions, helping the host team win.
Raanan Rein, an Israeli professor of Latin American history, says he's "100 percent persuaded" Argentina's then-ruling military junta influenced a 6-0 win against Peru.
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Dylan Redwine's remains found in La Plata County
Updated On: Jun 28 2013 12:58:59 AM CDT
The remains of a Monument boy who disappeared in November have been recovered in La Plata County.
On Wednesday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigations announced it was testing items found during a five-day search for the teenager.
On Thursday, the CBI said that lab tests show that the items found were human remains, and that the remains belonged to Redwine.
Redwine's family has been notified of the discovery.
According to the Durango Herald, about 45 officers spent five days searching a 12-mile stretch of Middle Mountain Road looking for clues into the boy's disappearance. That's when the items that turned out to be his remains were recovered.
Dylan lived with his mother in the Monument area, but he went to southwest Colorado for a court-ordered visit with his father. The father says Dylan was gone when he came home from running errands Nov. 19.
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Levy, Pettigrew Questionable for Sunday's gamePosted by on September 23, 2011 – 4:05 pm
Linebacker DeAndre Levy (knee) and tight end Brandon Pettigrew (shoulder) were listed as questionable for Sunday's game on the team's injury report.
Defensive end Cliff Avril (knee), safety Louis Delmas (hip) and wide receiver Calvin Johnson (ankle) were listed as probable.
Notable for the Vikings: defensive end Jared Allen (shoulder), wide receiver Percy Harvin (illness) and defensive tackle Kevin Williams (foot) are all probable.
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By Silver Suh-Nami on Sep 23, 2011 | Reply
Stay Healthly Men and lets go get those Vikings……man I hate the color purple!
By Curtis Gwin Jr on Sep 24, 2011 | Reply
We now have depth, no longer is there the big dropoff when someone gets hurt, thats been part of NE's success over the past years. Once everyone bought into the system it doesn't matter who is plugged into a slot the system continues on! Can't wait for Fairly to rev it up, we'll be coming in waves, 300 ponders after 300 pounders, Suh will get his sacks when they can no longer double him up!!
By Ptt八卦 on Nov 30, 2011 | Reply
First class writing!
By Detroit Lions Junkie on May 18, 2012 | Reply
Waaaaaay too many injurie last year,,


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Forest House in the High Tatras. Nearby downhill skiing, horseback riding, paragliding, raf
Forest house in a holiday park with a playground in the High Tatras. In the area you can ski, horseback riding, paragliding, rafting, mountain climbing, golfing, etc. Aqua Park 5 km. Steep stairs. Extra bed possible.
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Two Bedroom Apartment, Sleeps 6
Our first floor College Place apartment is very popular and understandably so too, because it is conveniently situated off Camden High Street and a couple of minutes' walk from the local underground station. It has two double bedrooms and accommodates up to six, with two sharing the double-sofa bed in the open plan living room/dining area. The kitchen is fully equipped for self-catering and there is a modern bathroom. Please refer to the expanded detail opposite here for each room – see under "Apartment Type". In addition, we have listed the furnishings, appliances and amenities for your convenience. Apartments Apart provide clean bed linen and towels on check in and we ensure that the unit is serviced weekly. The Camden area is very close to central London with all its attractions. The public transport systems available across London are truly superb so there is no need to drive anywhere. Camden Town offers plenty of lively entertainment of its own if you prefer to stay at home
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Samsung camera recognises faces, names, shoe sizes...
Facial recognition is fast becoming a standard feature on compact cameras. But Samsung's latest camera purports to take the technology to new heights. The nine-megapixel ST10 can recognise individual people by analysing faces as the shutter button is pressed, Samsung says. The feature requires a little setting up. For example, …
If this phrase is correct -- "The technology also prioritises friends, family and the frequently photographed so that the camera's smile mode will only take photos of recognised faces when they're grinning"
what happens when, after frequently taking a family member smiling, you want to take a picture of them pouting /scowling then the camera prevents this???
Isn't this censorship?
Do i need to register my camera with the Information Commissioner's Office now
that its processing rather than just holding personal data?
How will the police take to the deployment of this tech on the streets other than by themselves, given that last week they stopped and search an MP in London for photographing a cycle path his constituents claimed was dangerous.
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Country? England. Gun? Shot. Agent? Provocateur. Murder? Employment. Skyfall? Product placement.
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Sales of "certified pre-owned" cars have been climbing so steadily over the last several years that a program like Volkswagen's new WorldAuto initiative may have become inevitable. It refines VW's "CPO" program and, more significantly, also applies similar certification and quality guarantees to other manufacturers' late-model used cars that VW already has been willing to vouch for in its own CPO used cars.
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Anyone Been to Sushi Kanesaka Recently?
Hi Tokyo Chowhounds...
Anybody been to Sushi Kanesak recently. I have a trip coming up to Tokyo in September and the concierge at the hotel made a reservation for me. However, they quoted me a price of 30000-50000JPY for a chef's omakase dinner.
Is that correct? Seems quite high!
That's funny, I have a reservation there for the end of July and the price they quoted me was no different than what they've charged in the past which was around Y20, 000 per person. Could the hotel have been giving you a quote for two people? If that's the case that sounds about right, but per person should again, be around the 20k mark.
re: KLfoodie
Thanks KLfoodie!
50K JPY for dinner is just a bit too much for me... I'll settle for 30K JPY menu. :)
re: JAL777
I settled for the 30K as well. I was already terribly late for lunch, so, all i asked was whether it would it be diff fish between the various menus and the response was yes but no further info provided.
Thought the 30K was amazing, uni was sweet, toro melted in the mouth (can't remember which toro) and a piece of the best grilled fish I've ever had in my life. But the one thing that i can't stop thinking about was the additional tuna cheek sushi that i had. One of the diners wanted to try something else, after finishing the omakase and we were offered aged tuna cheek, which in its raw state looked very much like kobe beef (pink and beautifully marbled). The tuna is served v lightly grilled, certainly sent me to sushi paradise. Think it was Y2k a piece. It would be really nice to have several of those. Is it possible to specify what you want incorporated into an omakase?
Chef kanesaka is very hospitable and speaks english, even cracks jokes through the meal, making it a very enjoyable and memorable dining experience. Felt like i had lunch at a friend's place even though it was my first visit.
re: KLfoodie
Yes, I agree absolutely Kanesaka-san was very friendly, smile all the time and I enjoyed the lunch as well. I recall I paid around Yen18k per person. That was almost two years ago.
re: Notorious P.I.G.
Yeah, I also wonder what could be possibly be in Yen 50k omakase? The most expensive I ever paid was Yen 35k at Sawada.
re: HKTraveler
Not to mention the transportation to and from Hakone.
I was there in December and loved it. The fish was spectacular and Chef Kanesaka was an incredibly affable host. I'm not sure if I misheard (I possess the Japanese comprehensive skills of a very polite toddler), but I believe he ages his tuna because he feels it delivers a superior flavor. Can anybody confirm or deny.
Anyway, if you're interested in a detailed blow by blow with pics, you can check out my Kanesaka-related blog posts (I went twice):
re: BaronDestructo
Most high end sushi chefs would age their tuna.
re: BaronDestructo
Chatted with Chef Kanesaka in English and he definitely mentioned aging the tuna, by 10 days but i can't remember if it was the tuna cheek or chu toro.
I was just there for lunch. They had a 5K, 15K, 20K, 30K, and 50K lunch sets. We ordered the 5K lunch set and afterwards we had a couple of signature pieces for a comparo with the formidable competition in town.
Fellas (and gals), sorry to disappoint you all, but Kanesaka failed to deliver. The sushi was very good, dare I say excellent, relative to the usual lower price points in Japan (and lets not even mention the shlock that passes for "sushi" outside of Japan), but it really comes in behind its competitors mentioned in the same breath (at least the ones I've been to).
The 5K lunch has 9 pieces plus a maki, starting from the simpleminded (karei, maguro) and moving on to the real order of business (shiroebi, which was really good, katsuo, anago, and aji). The maki was tekka and you get some soup at the end. After that I ordered chutoro and uni for a comparo. Each piece was 2K, which is just way too much, and although very good, not on the order of the sublimeness one would expect for 2K a pop.
Compared to Mizutani-sensei, Mizutani-sensei's rice was very memorable and the fish just better. I've discussed this before, but in my comparo between Mizutani and Dai San Harumi, I called it a photo finish, which means Kanesaka would come a distant third.
On the value for money side, Mizutani doesn't do lunch sets, so not a fair comparison, but Dai San Harumi has a 2.3K lunch set with 8 pieces of sushi, maki, and soup, where you get better fish for half the price, so you tell me who's in charge here.
So, anyway, glad I tried it, but not meeting expectations. Maybe dinner (or a more expensive set) may be worth a try, but don't know if it I would try that. I should have suspected something was amiss when it didn't make the first 3 pages of tabelog when searching Ginza sushi by ranking.
On a funny aside, we were having a pretty good conversation with The Man, and he mentioned about some foreigners that came in for a meal, and they asked Kanesaka-san to show them what he had for neta, and they kept nixing all of them until they got to the maguro, and they said, yes, we'll take that. And so he started cutting them some maguro, and they said, no, we want it in a roll. So he started making a roll, and they said, we want cheese on it, and then some sauce. And of course, the answer is "we don't have cheese". Nagayama-san at Dai San Harumi would just have kicked them out of the place, deservedly so. He also said that he gets a lot of Taiwanese and Chinese who think sushi is some kind of appetizer, so they'll sit down go through a maguro-chutoro-ootoro-awabi cycle a few times, drink a coca cola, and get the bill. He was good natured about that, he's probably seen that so often that he doesn't pass judgment any more.
re: Uncle Yabai
Hi Uncle Yabai:
Let me try to defend Sushi Kanesaka:
1. At 5k lunch set, I don't think you get the best ingredient from Kanesaka. But according to you, the lunch set is inferior to Dai San Harumi's lunch set. But we know you are a long time customer of Harumi. Do you think that would have influence Nagayama-san to give you better quality despite the value? After all, you are his regular client.
2. In Tabelog, Sushi Kanesaka was ranked no.17 in Tokyo with an overall rating of 3.94, pretty decent level. http://r.tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130... Dai San Harumi was ranked no.76 with 3.70. http://r.tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130... Actually, on "taste" category, they are pretty even with SK at 4.01 and DSH at 4.02. But SK triumph in service and ambiance. DSH's low ranking seem to have more to do with his attitude and the poor ambiance.
I have personally not tried Dai San Harumi so not able to provide any comparison. In terms of just sushi, I agree Mizutani's 18k set has slight edge against Kanesaka's 18k set. But Mizutani is too serious and Kanesaka provides more friendly chatting with clients and speak English so that maybe an important factor for some CHers.
I believe your description in the last paragraph is the main reason why Sukiyabashi Jiro at Ginza refused to accept non-Japanese speaking guests.
re: FourSeasons
Let me provide some answers.
1. No, I don't think I get special treatment for lunch in terms of the quality relative to a non-regular. Sometimes what I do get is a couple of extra pieces, given for free with a wink and a nod and grateful acceptance. But the quality is the same. However, I would say that DSH's dinner menu quality is slightly better than lunch, and that may be what is happening at SK, that's why I left my review on an uncertain note as to my experience being biased because it was lunch. However, others have mentioned that SK doesn't have different quality standards for lunch or dinner, and pictures I've seen of the food during dinner "tell" me what I had for lunch would be the same as served for dinner. But mano a mano, value for money on the taste category, DSH takes the lead.
2. I would agree that Kanesaka-sensei is a less daunting and a more comfortable experience. Service, setting and atmosphere is very good too, although service at DSH is very good also (not so much the setting or atmosphere). Nagayama-sensei can be brutal with neophytes and people not with the program. However, I've built a relationship with him that "insulates" me and my dining companions I've taken (except Auntie Yabai, who's still afraid to eat anything but sashimi) for the experience. The rules are pretty clear, and rule #1 at DSH is that you follow the rules. We can call him the "Sushi Nazi" if you like, but once you're on the inside, it is all sweetness and light, peaches and cream. Of course, it didn't hurt that Nagayama-san is a big on making his own pottery (which he uses in the restaurant), his stuff is exhibited and auctioned, and I ended up buying a piece in an auction. A small investment worth the goodwill it won me.
As for Mizutani-sensei, also agree he's very serious, but a good person, it just takes a while for him to warm up to you, but he can. If you demonstrate knowledge and appreciation, he will reciprocate. Maybe not as effusively or openly as Kanesaka-sensei, but his need for adulation is there just as much.
re: Uncle Yabai
Did you ever try this?
"土曜日、第三春美鮨は新たな挑戦を致します。たっぷりと・おまかせコース 10,000円(税込)握り14貫、巻物1本。"
re: Scharn
Tried it several times. Excellent value, excellent quality.
re: Asomaniac
From their website it seems like this "special offer" still is the real deal, that is watching the chef prepare it, eating slowly piece by piece (as opposed to getting a large plate with 10 nigiri on it...). Can you confirm this?
Second question: I would like to try more exotic fish too. Do you think I could let them know, or is this 10k special a set deal?
re: Scharn
Yes, piece by piece, like a bear in the woods. If you want other things aside from the set (which is usually a fine selection of what's good that dat) you can order by the piece (and pay accordingly).
re: Uncle Yabai
Wonder why i was only offered 20k, 30k and 50k for Sat lunch at Kanesaka? Could it be the weekend rate?
Have to admit, chose Kanesaka because i wasn't sure how a non-Japanese speaking solo diner would fare at Mizutani where as the jovial atmosphere at Kanesaka had everyone chatting and laughing over lunch. All were quite amused that i couldn't converse in Japanese but could rattle off many sushi/fish names which i'd memorised.
re: JAL777
Ramen for the rest of week? Not a bad idea! Udon, soba, tonkatsu, J-curry and gyudon are all other cheap meals.
re: lost squirrel
I was told Kanesaka has a 5000Y + 10000 lunch omakase. Is this true? Also, do they do a la carte or solely omakase?
re: Foodie Fiend
Has anyone been to Kanesaka for a Saturday lunch recently and know the lunch sets they have available? Thanks.
Had another lunch at Sushi Kanesaka just last week. I requested sashimi-sushi omakase which he quoted starting from Yen 20,000, which was what I selected.
But an interesting news for Singapore chowhounders is that Chef Sanpei told me that Kanesaka Group will open a sushi place at Raffles Hotel in Singapore in late July. A sushi chef who was previously trained at Kyubei and Kanesaka will be posted to Singapore for this new project.
re: FourSeasons
Thanks for the data point. Just out of curiosity, was Kanesaka himself preparing the food?
re: hong_kong_foodie
In Sushi Kanesaka, there are 2 sushi chefs at two counters (each serving 6 guests). I believe chef Kanesaka was preparing at the other counter.
re: Uncle Yabai
thanks for the heads up. When I put that address into google it comes up with the same place as it was before - is the Juno building very close to the previous location?
re: davew666
Yes, very near, just a block or so behind from the original location.
re: Uncle Yabai
Hi Uncle Yabai,
Thanks for the info. :) Would you say I should go to your favorite Dai San Harumi first, or Kyubei, now that you've had this latest experience? Thanks!
re: exilekiss
There's no guarantee you'll get a consistently good experience at Kyubei. It is a huge place with many branches, and who knows if you'll get Kodaka-san. Also, it is a hell of a lot more expensive, so it fails on the value for money part.
re: Uncle Yabai
I'll go ahead and second Kyubei at the Keio Plaza. Had two nice meals there on seperate occasions with very nice Nigiri. Pretty relaxed atmosphere in a relaxed space. It ran Y28,350 per person not including Sake and a couple supplements.
I've also gotten the Assorted Sushi Omakase which is Y10,500 and ordered a la carte til I was full. Came to around Y12,500 for 14 pieces (13 with the Omakase 1 a la carte) plus tamago, 8 makizushi, and a Hamaguri Shiru.
We went in 2009. Sanpei-san was our Chef that night. We both had the omakase.
Bottom line: Absolutely fantastic. Hairy crab, steamed abalone, sublime chu-toro, anago, and Hokkaido uni on premium nori... Stil. dreaming about that meal.
Our bill (for the 2 of us, including sake & beer) was JPY66000.