I can’t give up butter

Japan has a shortage of butter…it’s been brewing for sometime, but now it’s reached the tipping point for a butter lover like myself. I cannot find butter at grocery stores anymore. All that is available is super expensive stuff or margarine (you can read a news story that explains the whole thing here).

I hear that some people find out when the stores get their shipments and go that day to get their butter fix. I haven’t done that yet, but I ran out of butter last week. In my desperation, I hit several stores trying to find the coveted curdled milk fat to no avail.

I finally caved in because I bought some amazing bread and had no butter to spread on it. I lined up for close to an hour (pretty stupid if you ask me) to get bread from Dominique Saibron, who is supposed to be Paris’s top baker, and who just opened his first store in Tokyo.

I paid a whooping seven dollars for 200 grams of ordinary butter, when I was used to paying about 2.50 for it.

It seems that the markets will twist my arm and force me to cut down on butter I should consider getting a cow…