The Japanese archipelago, stretching far from north to south, east to west, has several distinct climates depending on the region. The people that live in those respective regions also lead different lifestyles, accounting for differences in food culture in particular. The unique character of those food cultures persists today and in similar fashion the flavors…
Rice. The key ingredient of sake is also the staple of Japanese food culture. There have been periods in the past when obtaining enough to simply live was a struggle. The ancestors of many Japanese today anxiously watched over the cultivation of rice as if with prayers on their lips, and when the season of…
Why an English-language magazine about sake? Why now? Because it is, quite simply, an idea whose time has come. We have seen sake grow for the last fifteen years from a curiosity to a fast-growing sector of the connoisseur beverage market. We have noted how sake, not taken too seriously by many people back then,…