by Ko Akasaka | Aug 31, 2016
I live 30 miles south of San Francisco in the area known as Silicon Valley. It is famous as the location of large and small IT companies’ headquarters: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, HP, Apple, you name it. It does not sound like the center of the organic food...
by Ko Akasaka | Aug 24, 2016
Serious chocolate fun has been spreading across the land, but everybody is talking about dark chocolate today – 65%, 72%, 82%, single origin and so on. Higher cacao content is a luxury food fashion. From bakers, dessert book authors and chocolate makers, so many...
by Ko Akasaka | Aug 4, 2016
The weather is getting hot in the Bay Area, especially in the more-inland areas. The days are long, filled with cloudless blue sky from horizon to horizon. This is our usual low-humidity summer – fairly comfortable and pleasant compared to the rest of the country –...
