Once confined to Japanese restaurants and karaoke clubs, sake has found its way onto drinks ... yeast and koji (a traditional fungus used in Japanese cooking). From our morning news briefing ...
OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in ...
Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. If you like Japanese food, you may enjoy Japanese sake as well. But many of us drink sake only with Japanese food. The world is changing ...
Washoku, or Japanese cuisine, won the honors in 2013. One reason for sake’s growing popularity around the world is that its smooth flavor goes well with varieties of food, including sushi ...
People tend to think of udon as the thick noodles served in soup at inexpensive Japanese restaurants, but there are many types. For this recipe, buy dried udon that’s about the thickness of ...