Japanese cuisine comes to Carrara
Kemuri is a little Japanese gem hidden from sight in the middle of suburban Carrara. Owned by Hiroyuki Okubo and his wife Yuki, one could easily overlook it due to a lack of curiosity or understanding. In fact, the couple between them have great experience, Yuki a French-trained chef and Hiro a top-level sommelier and […]
Shitake mushroom and asparagus nori rolls
Many years ago, one of my dinner party recipes was a nori-lined spring roll stuffed with marron we’d caught while visiting a local dam, the heads poking out of the end of the spring roll for presentation. It’s an recipe easily adapted to prawns and asparagus or, in this case, to shitake mushrooms and asparagus […]