Michael Booth is a British journalist living in Denmark and an author of an excellent book about Japanese gastronomy called “Sushi and Beyond”. His new book “The Almost Nearly Perfect People. The Truth About The Nordic Miracle” is available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Really looking forward.

“Foodies” documentary trailer. Directed by Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius & Henrik Stockare, distributed by the same company who is behind Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Food Inc and Super Size Me. Out in February next year and shown in cinemas around the world. Starring Andy Hayler, Katie Keiko Tam, Perm Paitayawat,…

Over the last year, I have been followed in my travels by Swedish national TV journalists Thomas Jackson, Charlotte Landelius and Henrik Stockare who are making a documentary about foodies, people, who love food and who travel to eat. The documentary called “Foodies”, will be out in the beginning of…

The hardest to reserve restaurant in the world is not in Brooklyn, Barcelona and not even in Copenhagen. It’s in Tokyo and you’ve probably never heard of it before. I’ve been trying to get into Kawamura steakhouse without any success each time I went to Tokyo. And I am not…

Despite the fact that I’ve been to Japan several times (12 if to be precise), I recently found myself in two situations where, to my dismay, I realized that I had not yet learned, or at least kept in mind, the elementary rules concerning tipping in Japan… The first time,…

Nobody knows Copenhagen restaurants as well as my dear friend and blogger extraordinaire Trine Lai. She was one of the first bloggers in the world to report on Noma, where she’s been for 26 times. Her excellent and comprehensive Copenhagen restaurants recommendations list can be found here. Restaurants you could…

東京に住んでいる皆様、 東京で食べ歩きするのが大好きな私です。今、皆さんに私がお勧めしたい東京都内のレストランのリストを作っているところです。皆さんのお気に入りのレストランの名前、住所も教えてくれますか。(すべてのジャンル ) コメント、お待ちしています。

Click here for the updated list (21/08/13) Here is a list of 50 best restaurants in Tokyo (as of today, 30th of March, 2013) according to http://tabelog.com/ users (an influential Japanese restaurants site). 19/50 of the restaurants are overlapping with Michelin selection, while the rest are not mentioned on the guide.…

The best meals of 2012 of René Redzepi, Thomas Keller, David Chang and many other top chefs, journalists and bloggers! Can find it HERE.

This is the knife chef Jun Yukimura (Azabu Yukimura, 3*, Tokyo) uses, particularly for shearing pike eels (hamo) bones. The knife comes from Aritsugu, a 450 year old producer from Kyoto, who originally produced swords for samurais. When I asked to hold it, I felt I was holding danger –…