Summer Tomato Salad

It does not get much easier than this: Wash and cut slits into a tomato. I prefer the black-green ones but any tomato with rich flavour will do. Slice a soft cheese such as bocconcini into wedges and insert into tomato slits. Place on a plate with full flavoured greens like arugula and basil. Drizzle a little

Melting Snow Sake 雪解け酒

Hey Jas, Spring weather does not get any better than this. Cloudless sky, cool breeze and green rice fields with blue mountains in the distance. Naoko’s day off so we went to Osaka in the afternoon. Spent the time walking and sight-seeing. Listened to a very good local punk rock band playing in front of

Cold Cantaloupe Salad

When the summer is hot, as it is at the moment, I usually keep a melon seeded and cut into ready-to-eat-pieces in the Frigidaire. I arrived home from the gym hungry and craving something cold, and filling. There was not much cold in the house at the time but I did have cantaloupe and bocconcini.

Digital identity; a Hanko

As a long-time employee of IBM, the famous blue logo was an integral part of my identity: it was on much of the mail, both electronic and paper, which I sent and on most of the vast number of documents I wrote. It was on luggage tags of bags I carried all over the world.