From JH:
japanese vegetables
These I purchased at my favorite Japanese general store, Tortoise, in LA. An okra hybrid (canjun delight), Japanese pepper (shishito), and perilla green (ao shiso), which is a common lettuce, all from the Kitazawa Seed Company, the oldest in the US specializing in Asian varieties of vegetables. Admittedly, I like the packaging as much as I do the contents. We’ll see how they do under the Brooklyn sun.
And because one can never have too many herbs:
kitchen essentials
