Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia Top Food Blogger Profile

Michael Baxter, that’s me, had the very good fortune to be profiled in the September 2010 issue of Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia! Journalist Amy Ma, who I showed around Nishiki Market and ate some Kyoto-style sushi with back earlier in the summer, profiled a number of hot foodie bloggers around Asia and KyotoFoodie got to represent Japan. The idea was to get some current and authentic insider information about the latest and greatest places to chow-down. I got all excited and wrote more profiles than my quota. See below for the ones that didn’t fit in the piece. Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia Top Food Blogger Profile They Came. They Ate. They Blogged. Food bloggers are the …

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Nanao Green Tea Papiro Cookies

When I hear "Nanao", I think "monitors", not confections. Apparently, my knowledge is rather outdated, however, because that company is now called Eizo, no doubt because they were tired of people walking into their stores and expecting sweet, sweet candy and finding that gnawing on the edges of a display did nothing but damage their dental work. Actually, I’m sure that the display maker is

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