For this edition of Tokyo Thursdays, I had orginally planned to share a recipe with Japanese roots. Then I stumbled upon Tokyo Food Life, a one man site by Michael Kleindl. From my quick visit to the site, it seems that his focus is on places only someone who has lived in Tokyo for a while would know, not the fancy schmaltzy or touristy ones. In his latest piece The Spice of Life and Rocking...

And the cookbooks keep landing on my desk, almost one a day. Thankfully my pre-publication picks were varied in their themes and horizons. One of the most recent arrivals is Salsas of the World (Gibbs Smith, October 2011) by Mark Miller with Robert Quintana. The book lives up to its title and spans the globe. My first pick is a recipe from Syria which requires juicy pomegranate seeds. Muhammara / Syria In Istanbul around late...