[Sca-cooks] Re: Rice wine lees

[Katharine Whisler]

Kiri wrote [in response to my suggestion that rice wine lees a/k/a/ "sake
kasu" may be found at Japanese grocery stores]:

>Our only problem is that we live out in the boonies, and there isn't a
>general oriental grocery store here, nevermind a Japanese one.

Sorry, for some reason I thought you lived near a large city.  (I met you at
the Cooking Symposium this year.  I'm the woman in brown who got extremely
excited about medieval Chinese cooking.)

I found an online mail order source for sake kasu, the Maruwa grocery store
in San Francisco.  I have never ordered from them, and the shipping costs
will probably be higher than the price of the item, but at least you would
be able to get the stuff-- and quite a few other fairly obscure items as
well, like rice koji for die-hards who make their own miso.  They appear to
have a rather extensive product line!

With luck you will be able to find a more convenient source.

At any rate, the address for Maruwa's main page (in English) is:
http://www.maruwa.com/index_e.html

The address of the page with sake kasu is:
http://www.maruwa.com/onlineshop/chilled/chilled.html

--Katerina

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