At Bushido in Mountain View, Thereā€™s More than Meets the Eye

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Carolyn Jung

Location: Silicon Valley, California, USA
Birthday: June 03

Title: Writer/Editor

Bio: Carolyn Jung is a James Beard Award-winning food writer based in Silicon Valley, Calif. The former food writer for the San Jose Mercury News, she now freelances for the San Francisco Chronicle, Food Arts, Via Magazine, and others.

MY RECENT POSTS

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Piperade Still Going Strong After a Decade
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MY RECENT COMMENTS

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August 20, 2012 11:17PM
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February 29, 2012 08:01PM
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November 22, 2011 05:16PM
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OCTOBER 3, 2012 9:25AM

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Executive Chef Isamu Kanai is a very, very clever man. When he impishly set a small plate of nigiri sushi before my husband and I one night when we were invited to dine as guests at his downtown Mountain View restaurant, Bushido, he asked us to guess what type of fish it was. We scrutinized the fleshy [...]