Horticulturist Naoki Yokoyama is the 15th generation to head his family’s nursery in Tokyo’s Kiyose district. Six years ago, anticipating the rush of visitors with the 2020 Olympics, farmer friends asked him to try growing edible blooms.
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2022.03.28
A tonic rich in active enzymes, polyphenols, vitamins, and acetic and lactic acids, kombucha is enjoyed worldwide these days, although not everyone knows that this lightly carbonated, fermented drink has nothing to do with kombu seaweed.
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2022.02.28
“There’s a real culinary identity here, as well as a global, modern touch. Moscow’s culinary future is very bright,” declared Michelin Guide International Director Gwendal Poullennec, at the awards ceremony on October 14.
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2022.01.20
Yuzu citrons grown in the field are harvested from late July through early December; supplies typically last through March. Their peak market time is November, when the fruit are yellow. In Kochi prefecture, Japan’s largest yuzu producer,
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2022.01.13
Taku Abe heads MOA, a five-hectare farm in Shizuoka that upholds principles of natural farming taught by Mokichi Okada (1882–1955).
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2021.12.06
“Some 6.3 billion sheets of nori are made in Japan annually,” says Motoyuki Shinjaku of Mikuni-ya, a leading producer of the dried laver seaweed that’s pressed into thin sheets and known around the world as the wrapper for sushi.
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2021.11.04
Toshihiko Moriyama, the fourth-generation head of a century-old apple farm, decided to make good use of the fruit thinned out in the growing process.
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2021.10.11
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Ta...
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2021.09.06
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Akito Shimomura / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba The...
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2021.08.06
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Ao...
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2021.07.05
JOURNAL / JAPAN 日本語(Japanease) text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English ...
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2021.06.07
text by Michiko Watanabe / photographs by Daisuke Nakajima / English text by Susan Rogers Chikuba Fi...
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2021.05.10