Food:
A recent report on regional dishes of Japan has uncovered squid with chocolate, lobster beer, peanuts and coral, strawberry spaghetti, sea-lion curry and fish sausage enhanced with milk and strawberries. Now, I'm all for a bit of experimentation in the kitchen but this takes the biscuit (with pigeon and grapefruit?) I was relieved when Nick who is visiting me turned up with a pork pie which I ate, quite naturally, with a cup of sake.