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DAIRY PRODUCTS
JAPAN [Hyogo]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #29
Yuge Farm—A Model for Urban Dairy Farming

Though the times are always changing, there are certain timeless ingredients from Japan that will ne...

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2023.06.05

JAPAN [Tokyo]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #28
HONEY
The Bee’s Knees

Though the times are always changing, there are certain timeless ingredients from Japan that will ne...

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2023.05.08

JAPAN [Kochi]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #27

KONATSU (Citrus tamurana)
Pruned to Maximize Leafy Shade

Though the times are always changing, there are certain timeless ingredients from Japan that will ne...

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2023.04.06

JAPAN [Tochigi]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #26
ORGANIC SAKE
A Decade of Organic Production

Though the times are always changing, there are certain timeless ingredients from Japan that will ne...

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2023.03.09

JAPAN [Aomori]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #25
ORGANIC KOGYOKU (JONATHAN) APPLES
Fruit that Really Does Keep the Doctor Away

Though the times are always changing, there are certain timeless ingredients from Japan that will ne...

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2023.02.02

JAPAN [Nara]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #24
YAMATO MANA
Heirloom Greens Full of Flavor

Though the times are always changing, there are certain timeless ingredients from Japan that will ne...

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2023.01.10

JAPAN [Chiba]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #23
CURED SWEET POTATOES
Aging Makes All the Difference

The eighth-generation heir to a farm in eastern Chiba prefecture, Yudai Ishida always knew that he would carry on his father’s work.

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2022.12.05

JAPAN [Okayama]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #22
OLIVES 
Naturally Grown, Naturally Processed

“We grow a few different varieties of olives,” says Souichi Kanabe of the family business begun by his father shortly after World War II.

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2022.11.17

JAPAN [Aomori]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #21
HATCHO MISO
Three Core Ingredients, Legendary Flavor

“Our neighborhood, Hatcho, was named for its distance (eight cho, or about 870 meters) from the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu,” says Maruya head Nobutaro Asai.

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2022.10.06

JAPAN [Aomori]SHIJIMI CLAMS Nature’s Restorative
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #20

Separated from the Pacific by a sandbar to the east, and fed by mineral-rich rivers that flow from the volcanic peaks of the Hakkoda mountain range to the west, the brackish waters of Lake Ogawara in Aomori prefecture are the third largest source of shijimi clams in Japan.

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2022.09.20

JAPAN [Aomori]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #19
RED PERILLA
A Mainstay Herb of Aomori Cooking

“We sow in late April and harvest the leaves from late June to mid-September,” Kiko Kasai tells us about the purple-tinged shiso perilla she grows in Aomori.

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2022.08.01

JAPAN [Fukuoka]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #18
HEALTHY VINEGARS
Naturally Fermented without Shortcuts

This month we spoke with Kazukiyo Takahashi, the 14th in a long line of brewers of organic brown-rice vinegar. Shoubunsu Co., Ltd.in Fukuoka prefecture has been making its product the all-natural way for more than 300 years.

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2022.07.11

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