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What is “sweetness,” and how does its meaning change in communities over time? In this episode, Eric C.

The current generation of omakase chefs in Los Angeles are returning to the essence of the cuisine. A trip to Tokyo confirms what's been driving their pursuit for excellence.

This year, KFC is nudging customers to order online and then pick up their chicken at a certain time, rather than forming a queue, in consideration of social distancing measures.

Long queues of patrons running out the door of nearly every KFC are a

Historian Eric C. Rath’s comprehensive overview of one of Japan’s most iconic foods is encyclopedic, yet sprinkled with personal asides and illuminating source materials.

The finest sushi is now available to go. How does the experience travel? Omakase comes home, because sushi bars, like all restaurants, are shifting to meet the challenges of doing business in this moment By Devra First Globe Staff,Updated December 22, 2020, 4:42 p.m. Email to a Friend A platter at Cafe Sushi. The food before me is beautiful, a polychromatic palette of fish on rice. There is kanpachi, or amberjack, its blush gradations broken up by a dab of yuzu kosho, the Japanese citrus-chile ...

Kosher Sake Pours Into Japan Newsweek 12/11/2020 Ross Kenneth Urken © Courtesy of Binyomin Y. Edery Rabbi Edery and the owner at Funasaka Brewery in Takayama — one of less than a dozen breweries in Japan that make kosher sake. Courtesy of Binyomin Y. Edery In a snug bar tucked in the back of a food market in Takayama, Japan, I raised a glass of kosher sake as I sat with Hiroki Arisu, the 35-year-old president and CEO of Funasaka Sake Brewery, which makes this elixir in ke...