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Bento Boom Hits Bay Area
Source: Posted: 04-22-2009 at 09:00:13
| pFiled under: a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/lunch/" rel="tag"Lunch/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/dinner/" rel="tag"Dinner/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/restaurants/" rel="tag"Restaurants/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/new-products/" rel="tag"New Products/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/america/" rel="tag"America/a/pimg hspace="4" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" vspace="4" alt="bento" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2009/04/bento.jpg" /br /Ladies and Gentlemen, we are embarking upon a a href="http://www.gourmet.com/food/2009/03/bento-box-boom" target="_blank"Bento Boom/a. The prettily packaged (often very elaborate) box lunch has been around in Japan since the 1600s, has its share of a href="http://www.adventuresinbentomaking.com/" target="_blank"obsessives/a stateside, and now boasts an upscale San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur as its, uh, bentoperson. Meet a href="http://www.eatpekopeko.com/index.html" target="_blank"Peko-Peko/a (Japanese for "hungry"). br /br /How can a simple, typically cheap boxed lunch go upscale? Well, owner Sylvan Brackett's restaurant background is at Alice Waters' famed local eatery a href="http://www.chezpanisse.com/" target="_blank"Chez Panisse/a. His tribute to the food of his childhood -- his mother is Japanese -- do not come cheap. When they're so gorgeously a href="http://www.eatpekopeko.com/index.html" target="_blank"presented/a in beautiful "to go" boxes, or on traditional servingware when catered, we'd be inclined to shell out the $25 minimum. (Full disclosure: We sampled Brackett's incredible potstickers as college acquaintances). Seasonal, organic ingredients might include Marin Sun Pork emKakuni /em(soy and sake-simmered pork belly) with chrysanthemum greens or font face="Bodoni Std Book"span style="font-size: 14px;"/span/fonta layered box of Dungeness crab, pork cutlet, local pickled ginger and Brackett's house-brined emumeboshi/em (pickles).br /br /Though gourmet bento has not yet charmed all of America, Brackett studied the cuisine in Japan and declares, "Beautifully laid out food is common there." How does Mom feel about him taking the casual food she served him as a tot and bringing it to the Alice Waters crowd? "She thinks it's amusing."h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/22/bento-boom-hits-bay-area/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.slashfood.com/forward/1519763/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/22/bento-boom-hits-bay-area/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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