[Sca-cooks] Re: Rice wine lees

[Elaine Koogler]

I do live near DC, but most of the grocery stores in the DC metro area that
I've been able to find are Chinese or generic "oriental" rather than
specifically Japanese.  However, what I may do is contact a fellow that I
know who lives in DC and has a Japanese persona...maybe he knows of one.....

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Whisler" <kathywhisler at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Rice wine lees


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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