2014年1月24日金曜日

Filia cafe&restaurant restaurant review


We went to Filia cafe&dining.
The restaurant is near Aoyama campus.
This URL is our group's video review.
Prease watch it !!!

2014年1月7日火曜日

movie review: Food.inc

http://www.cinemacafe.net/official/foodinc/

I watched "Food.inc". This documentary movie shows us food problems all over the world.
Now, there are numerous fast food restaurants and these companies need inexpensive meat and grain.
So farmers have to change their ways of agriculture to industrial food system.
One farmer said that farmers are forced to work like slaves of enterprises.

People like hamburgers and fried potatoes because they can satisfy people's appetite cheaply.
From 2000, it has been said that a third American children are incipient diabetics.

I watched many cruel scenes in the movie. Poultry chicken farms produced large numbers of chickens and killed them as a factory.

I didn't know that corn was not adequate feed for cows. However, corn is cheaper than grass, so many farmers use corn as cow's food. So cow's stomach mutates and "O-157" was produced.

I think all food problem was produced by people fundamentally.
Recently, we can't say that all of foods that we can buy in supermarkets are safety.
It is important thing to know roots of foods, and this movie tells us it clearly.
I want to study about food problems more and choose safety products from now on.

I recommend you watching this food documentary so much.

2013年12月28日土曜日

Restaurant review

I am interested in organic, healthy foods so I went to "Tamana-shokudou" in Minami aoyama. The location of the restaurant was a bit difficult to understand, but I could arrive at there. 

The atmosphere was very homey. The core customer stratum was women.



I ordered a daily set meal of dinner.
At first, a waitress served up a salad.


The main dish of the set meal was shiitake mushroom steaks.
There we're bite-sized avocados on the steaks. This steaks didnot contain any meats, so its calorie might be very low.




There was side dishes and they were pickles, hijiki and sesame and salt.
We could sprinkle sesame and salt on brown rice if we wanted.

There was a miso soup and all of them were very healthy and delicious for me.

In the restaurant, there was only one bad point and it was that a waitress forgot serving water to me.
However I like the atmosphere and healthy foods, so I want to go there at lunch time next time.

2013年12月20日金曜日

Why you should be eating avocados!

http://youtu.be/BdyIH7LfjmE

Many people tend to avoid eating avocado too much, because its fat level is high. However, the fat is very good for our bodies and it makes healthy skin, hair and nail. I like avocado very much, but I thought its calorie is higher than other vegetables, so I tended to avoid eating it frequently. After watching of the movie, I think it is not bad thing to eat avocado everyday.

2013年12月12日木曜日

Steve Gardner's concert

I was very impressed with Steve Gardner's performance and songs.
I had not listened blues, so the rhythm and atmosohere were very flesh for me.
After the concert, he told us about American food culture very much.
I was surprised that he was knowledgeable about food culture in countrysides and Coca-cola  very well. His lecture was so profitable for me.

2nd Harvest Japan's Charles Mcjilton

Charles Mcjilton has been the CEO of an NGO in Japan (2HJ) since 2002.
The organization contributes foods to people who are in straitened circumstances.
2HJ has provided food to Tohoku region, too.
Last year, he established the first incorporated food bank in the Philippines.

I was very shocked to read that each day in Tokyo 6000 tons of food are thrown away.
In the world, there are many poor people and they can not eat enough food to live.
We should decrease leavings of a meal.

2013年11月21日木曜日

Sushi and beyond p.32~

In chapter 6, Michael wrote about Japanese food program on TV. He went to watch "Bistro SMAP", which is one of corners of  "SMAP×SMAP". He said that SMAP changed Japanese prejudice that men didnot cook in the kitchen. Recently, I also think that there are many men whose hobby is cooking. Perhaps SMAP is one of factors of the trend.

Next chapter, he went to tempura shop with his family. They ordered whitebait, squid,eel and shrimp.  He was  so impressed of the tastiness. Particularly, he want to know how to make these crunchy batter, which is called"koromo" in Japanese.
He wrote that although the technique of deep-frying was originally introduced to Japan by Europeans and Chinese, the Japanese have elaborate the way of making tempura. I was amazed by the information.
He told that Japanese always serve tempura with grated daikon mixed in with the dipping sause, because daikon helps the digestion of oily foods. I thought we should eat daikon-oroshi before I eat tempura.
It was interesting that he thought Japanese people are very careful about eating, because they believe that Tokugawa ate tempura too much, so he died.