Alas, as you will have gathered Orient Expressed will be expressing itself no longer as our correspondent has run off to Japan to learn the ways of the Samuari.
Still, hopefully it entertained and enlightened and fret not because there's some damn good stuff available on the Caterer Blog, Kitchen Rat and the Editor's Blog that you should check out instead.
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