{"id":2181,"date":"2013-01-11T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-11\/2181"},"modified":"2013-01-11T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T07:13:16","slug":"cornucopia-of-tasty-lakerol-licorice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-11\/2181","title":{"rendered":"Cornucopia of Tasty L\u00e4kerol Licorice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"020528\" href='\/i\/JF4_020528.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_020528_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"494\"\nalt=\"Tasty and Refreshing L&auml;kerol candies \u30b9\u30a6\u30a7\u30fc\u30c7\u30f3\u306e\u7518\u8349  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-11\/2181  --  This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i020528\"\ntitle=\"Tasty and Refreshing L&auml;kerol candies \u30b9\u30a6\u30a7\u30fc\u30c7\u30f3\u306e\u7518\u8349  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-11\/2181  --  This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 2000 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_020528.jpg'>image data<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Tasty and Refreshing<\/span>\n<br\/>L&auml;kerol candies\n<br\/>\u30b9\u30a6\u30a7\u30fc\u30c7\u30f3\u306e\u7518\u8349\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Last autumn when <a href='\/blog\/2012-11-30\/2157'>Damien\nDouxchamps<\/a> visited Kyoto and <a\nhref='\/blog\/2012-11-05\/2130'>introduced me<\/a> to some new\n(for me) temples, he also introduced me to the delightful licorice candies\nfrom Swedish company <a href='http:\/\/lakerol.com\/'>L&auml;kerol<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>So delightful were they that, upon not finding them for sale in Japan, <span class='nobr'>I enlisted<\/span> the help of <a href='\/blog\/2008-11-07\/986'><span class='nobr'>a\nfriend<\/span> in Germany<\/a>, and came home from <a\nhref='\/blog\/2013-01-04\/2177'>my New Year's trip<\/a> to\nfind <span class='nobr'>a box<\/span> brimming with an assortment of 11 different flavors...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"020522\" href='\/i\/JF4_020522.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_020522_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"Variety it's the spice of life  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-11\/2181  --  This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i020522\"\ntitle=\"Variety it's the spice of life  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-01-11\/2181  --  This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_020522.jpg'>image data<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Variety<\/span>\n<br\/>it's the spice of life\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I haven't tried most of them yet, but the cactus flavor (<span class='nobr'>I never<\/span> knew\ncacti had flavor, much less tasty flavor) is the one <span class='nobr'>I most<\/span> liked among the\nvarious flavors Damien had with him.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href='\/blog\/2013-01-08\/2179'>My jetlag<\/a> is still\nbeing unfun, so <span class='nobr'>I didn't<\/span> spend much time on these quick snapshots, but <span class='nobr'>I\ngot<\/span> lucky in the first shot by having grabbed <span class='nobr'>a dry<\/span>-erase whiteboard (also\npressed into make-shift photographic service in <a\nhref='\/blog\/2013-01-10\/2180'>yesterday's post about\nJapanese candles<\/a>) as the backdrop... <span class='nobr'>I hadn't<\/span> even thought about the\nnice box reflections until <span class='nobr'>I happened<\/span> to notice them after setup.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sometimes luck is more important than skill. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2013-03-02\/2220'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last autumn when Damien Douxchamps visited Kyoto and introduced me to some new (for me) temples, he also introduced me to the delightful licorice candies from Swedish company L&auml;kerol.<\/p> <p>So delightful were they that, upon not finding them for sale in Japan, I enlisted the help of a friend in Germany, and came home from my New Year's trip to find a box brimming with an assortment of 11 different flavors...<\/p> <p>I haven't tried most of them yet, but the cactus flavor (I never knew cacti had flavor, much less tasty flavor) is the one I most liked among the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}