Recipes & Articles
256 entries from the Japanese Food Report archive
Tsukushi, 300 East 41st Street, New York; (212) 599-8888. As a Japanese friend explained to me, "After a night of drink, drink, drink in Japan you need...
Restaurant Dewaya, Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture (I'm sorry I can't read the address on their Japanese card, but their website is www.dewaya.com. A...
A group of 5th graders cutting with scalpel-sharp, six-inch kitchen knives and cooking on gas-fired burners? A scene inconceivable in our litigation-addled...
Ever since I started traveling to Japan, I've been fascinated by the "edges" of the country -- the reaches beyond hypermodern Tokyo. I just returned from...
My friend Henry Sidel, the president of the boutique sake importer Joto Sake, invited me to his class this past week at Murray's Cheese, New York's best cheese...
I met the renowned potter Shiro Tsujimura in a Kyoto office quite by accident, as I admired a flower vase of his, a rugged, raw column that looked like a...
Aburiya Kinnosuke, 213 E.45th St. between 2nd and 3rd, 212-867-5454 When a Japanese television reporter, a friend of a friend, called to say she moved to New...
I wrote this story a year ago with my friend Reiko Sagioka. It's about one of my absolute culinary heroes in Japan, a legendary chef named Hisao Nakahigashi....
I wanted to visit a traditional sake brewery while I was in Yamagata, so I stopped in to see the Wada family. Their ancestors have been making sake here since...
Lloyd Nakano is one of Tokyo's top hoteliers. He's also a guy from Hawaii who knows his food. I was lucky enough to spend an eve with him in Tokyo. Around...
"Follow the boots," Lloyd advised me. We had just emerged from Tokyo's Tsukiji, the world's largest wholesale fish market. It was seven in the morning. We...
En Japanese Brasserie, 435 Hudson Street at Leroy, 212-647-9196 As my SUV pushed through a Petri dish called House Causeway Road in Delhi, India, past cars,...