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Re: [OM] My New Year's Offering

Subject: Re: [OM] My New Year's Offering
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:32:04 -0600
Nice image, Joel, and it looks delicious.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/1/2014 2:20 PM, DZDub wrote:
> Each New Year's Day, my wife makes a traditional Japanese soup called
> ozoni.  I posted it to the gallery, and it looks like I'm No. 2, if you
> don't count Brian's doublet.  Let's get shaking, boys and girls.  Gallery
> looks pretty bare.
>
> I dislike foody shots, but I've never taken a photo of my bowl of ozoni, so
> it seemed inevitable.
>
> We are not really sure of the correct transliteration of the Japanese name
> into English spelling, but my mother-in-law, who speaks both languages,
> thinks the spelling is the best we can do.  She's never seen the name
> spelled, nor have I.  I have no idea if the soup is still traditional in
> Japan.  My mother-in-law is 93 and her parents emigrated to the Hawaii
> territory very nearly a hundred years ago and the traditions they celebrate
> are what her parents brought with them at that time.
>
> The soup is a basic fish stock with carrots, Japanese potatoes, gobo
> (burdock root), mushrooms, and other vegetables, with rice flour dumplings
> called mochi.  We were not able to get normal Japanese mochi this year, so
> we have the Korean variety, which I prefer in some ways anyway.
>
> E-5 with DZ 14-54/2.8 @ 5.6.  No trickery in post, but I held a card just
> below the lens to bounce a little light into the shadows.
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10407
>
> All the best in 2014,
> Joel W.


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