Before mechanical refrigeration was available, people throughout the world struggled with keeping fresh food f…

Takénoko (bamboo) shoots that are left to grow become mature pole-like bamboo trees.The youngest, most tender,…

Ceramics and tea culture are both close to my heart so when Hosai Matsubayashi XVI invited me to practise pott…

The world’s oldest known cookbook, “The Art of Cooking,” attributed to Marcus Gavius Apicius…

Akila Inouye runs the Tsukiji Soba Academy in Tokyo. A fan of molecular cuisine, his teaching method relies on…

Zoom-Zoom sent Japanophile Steve Beimel to meet some of the craftsmen and craftswomen in Mazda’s home city, Hi…

This collective offers illustrators the chance to represent the Japanese capital by adapting the style of cove…

Like many foods the Japanese currently enjoy, its likely that miso originated in China and traveled by way of …

Kumquats are called kinkan 金柑 in Japanese, meaning “golden citrus.” The scientific name is Citrus …

Alongside the first-time English publication of his essays, an exhibition on the Mono-ha artist surveys his ex…