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I love natto. But it wasn’t always that way. My mom gave me my first taste when I was around seven or eight years ...
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Pursuing Japanese food and service culture with American hospitality, a restaurant was opened last year near the Pike Place Market. Notable and legendary local chef ...
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Read Part 1 >> Family is important to Yagi, explains his daughter Sakura, because his own was fractured when he was very young. His father died ...
The first time I interviewed Bon Yagi, the New York City businessman who has built an empire of 13 Japanese specialty restaurants featuring everything from ...
I’m a foodie. Everyone knows this. I write about food, I take photos of food everywhere I dine, I love to cook, and I ...
UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) decided to register “Washoku” (traditional Japanese cuisine) as an Intangible Cultural Heritage1 on December 4, 2013 ...
Sawako Okochi has always had a sense of adventure. When she finished high school in Hiroshima and her classmates were deciding which Japanese universities to ...
—Daddy, she said shyly, I don’t feel like cooking this Sunday….—Of course, I answered. Would you like to eat at the cafeteria at ...
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I remember when I was a kid I preferred milanesas (breaded meat cutlets) with mashed potatoes to the Japanese meals that my mother prepared everyday ...
We were on our way from Los Angeles to Turlock, located in the central valley of California, for what I believe was my grandmother’s ...
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