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May 21st, 2008 at 12:00 am

Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito

The lovely and gracious Xeni Jardin who serves as the tech culture journalist and curator of Internet esoterica, anomalies, and curiosities over at Boing Boing TV wrote in today to alert us to their just-released “Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito,” with an original score by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Everything you need to know about digging up, cooking, and eating bamboo shoots.

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    Oh sure, no one here at Japundit had a recipe to share (http://japundit.com/archives/2008/04/12/8288/)
    except esotericlarity, but I can find this on BoingBoing…

    *sulks off grumbling about making okinomiyaki tonight*

    len on May 21st, 2008
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    okOnomiyaki that is.

    len on May 21st, 2008

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