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A delegation from Yamagata, including Gov. Mieko Yoshimura and Takeshi Suda, head chef of the restaurant Okimizuki, joined ...
Whether you’re enjoying sushi, feeding your baby rice cereal or indulging in a rice pudding, it’s easy to see why rice is one of the most popular staples around the world. But emerging ...
Meanwhile, younger farmers have been choosing to produce different types of rice that are used for sake, rice crackers or fed to livestock because demand for rice in Japan had been falling until ...
Facing a declining domestic sake market, rice wine maker Hakkaisan Brewery Co. will launch its first-ever whisky, made primarily from rice instead of traditional malted barley. The new product ...
Today, 250 years later, the brewery’s ninth generation descendant, Hideyuki Komai, continues the tradition of making sake out of rice grown only in Aomori, clear spring water from Kanisawa, and Aomori ...
A new report is bringing attention to toxic heavy metals and elements such as arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury that could be in your rice. The report, which comes from Healthy Babies ...
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A new Japanese restaurant is opening in NuLu this week, and it's from the mind of one of Louisville's most well-known restaurateurs.Sake a Go Go, which is located at 620 E Market Street ...
The retail prices of the Philippines’ main staple, rice, continued its contraction streak for the fourth consecutive month in April, according to a report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
A Queenstown brewery has put New Zealand on the global sake map for the first time. The country’s first and only dedicated sake brewery has taken home gold at the Tokyo Sake Challenge.
Samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the United States contained dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium, according to a new report released ...
For more than 2,000 years, saké has been deeply intertwined with the history and culture of Japan. Crafted through a meticulous brewing process, saké was used during religious or formal ceremonies but ...