Don't you just love looking at pictures of strange and gorgeous food? For me, a pile of fruit and vegetables is far more beautiful than a cake. Here's more porn from the food department of Takashimaya, the big department store in Kyoto. This area takes up almost the entire basement of the huge store, with ready-to-eat food as well as fruits, vegetables and fish to take home.
Many vegetables packed in what looks like sand but I assume is salt, to pickle them to some degree.
Lots of smoked fish in various sizes.
Gobo in Japanese, burdock root in English -- it's a relative of the carrot. I've always loved "kimpira gobo" in my Japanese restaurant at home, a concoction that resembles grated, sauteed carrot. My friend Zuki tells me that in her family gobo was "peasant food" -- maybe that's why I couldn't find any to eat while I was in Japan, but here's the raw material.
I have no idea what this stuff is, but it costs about six dollars a package -- must be pretty special!
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