New Japanese Restaurant, KAJITSU

Posted on May 16, 2009 in Hiroko's Blog

I recently dined at Kajitsu, a new exciting Japanese shojin cuisine restaurant, which opened two months ago in the East Village section of New York City.  Shojin cuisine is an ancient Japanese culinary practice developed in Zen Buddhist monasteries.  Following the Buddhist principle of not……taking life, shojin cuisine does not use meat, fish, eggs or other animal products.  Meals are prepared from fresh, seasonal local produce, legumes, whild herbs, seeds and...

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