Winter has arrived with a vengeance here in NYC. But don't let that keep you from coming out to meet Christopher Salyers and get copies of his books Face Food and Face Food Recipes tomorrow night. I'm excited for this. How could I not be? This is all about charaben, the Japanese art of making food look like characters from pop culture. We encourage you not only to come to this event, but to come with your own examples of charaben! I want to see lunchmeats transformed into palettes for the palate! Rice and nori shaped into...I dunno, Snoopy? Murakami's Mr. Dob? Doraemon? Those guys all seem basic, but over at Chris' blog, you can see that people go really over the top with charaben. Obama sushi? That is INSPIRED. There's a Facebook event page with details that you can check out here. Did I mention that NHK is coming to film the event for their local Japanese programming about NYC? There you go. Saturday 12/12 from 6 to 8 pm at GRNY.

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