This is incredible
Today’s Tasting Table (cooking section) directs us to the “other JCC” - The Japanese Culinary Center at 711 Third Ave. 212-661-3333.
I don’t know what “other JCC” Tasting Table is respectively referring to but I’m damn sure this is going to be the ONLY JCC in my life. I’ve had it up to here with faux JCC’s but this looks like the real deal.
From Tasting Table:
“Run by New York Mutual Trading, an 83-year-old company that imports more than 4,000 Japanese products, the JCC serves as the company’s showroom. As such, it’s both pristine and slightly strange, with boxes of plastic grass (for sushi containers) sharing space with high-quality iron Yamaga pots, decorative curtains, a knife selection that rivals Korin’s, and beautiful Bizen-yaki: thick, wood-fired clay platters that start at $200.
The JCC will soon also start selling hard-to-find Japanese ingredients—including soy salt, artisanal shoyu and live-culture white miso—in home-cook quantities. Unfortunately, the center doesn’t have a license to sell the hundreds of sakes and shochus it imports, but the clerks are happy to direct shoppers to local stores that do.”
Pretty cool stuff. I’ll be paying a visit here soon enough. Till then, please avoid all other JCC’s!
[link via nish]
