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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
On a late March afternoon in central Sapporo’s “raccoon trail,” a covered shopping arcade, business is particularly brisk. While Honshu’s main cities celebrate under the cherry blossoms, several meters of snow remain piled up beside icy sidewalks — with more expected. That’s good news, ...
A group in Tokyo has published a cookbook on traditional dishes from the home countries of refugees living in Japan. “Umi o Watatta Kokyo no Aji” (“Flavours Without Borders”), published by the Japan Association for Refugees, provides 45 recipes contributed by refugees from 15 ...
The Institute of Cetacean Research can be found in a nondescript white brick office building in Tokyo’s port district. Down a hallway and through an unmarked door is a small lobby with a model ship, a poster showing various whale species, and a sign ...
By leading the Japan team to a medal in the Bocuse d’Or cooking competition in late January, chef Noriyuki Hamada realized a long-cherished dream shared by his compatriots by showcasing what he calls “Japan’s original French cuisine.” “This is certainly not the end of ...
British chef Valentine Warner developed a taste for Japanese food at a younger age than most Europeans in his generation. Until he was 3, he lived in Japan while his father was the ambassador. After the family moved back home, his mother continued cooking ...
It is 2050 and shoppers are stopping off at Ikea to buy fine wine made in Sweden. A Nordic fantasy? Not according to climate experts who say the Earth’s warming phase is already driving a wave of change through the world of wine. As ...
High walls protect a Chinese peanut warehouse in central Senegal, where the product is becoming the new “gold” for farmers bypassing local traders to sell to Asia at inflated prices. Beneath an asphalt road leading into the village of Dinguiraye in the West African ...
Major food firms are aggressively expanding abroad escape Japan’s shrinking market, dwindling birthrate and aging population. Suntory Holdings Ltd. plans to list its core subsidiary, Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd., on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to raise funds for “food and beverage operations growing ...
Thousands of dead pigs in a Shanghai river cast a spotlight on China's poorly regulated farm production, with the country's favorite meat joining a long list of food scares.
A 75-year-old ramen shop owner near one of the evacuation zones in Fukushima Prefecture is hoping his experience rebuilding businesses after two disasters will send a positive message to those who survived the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Born in the town ...
Japanese food has been ranked as the favorite foreign cuisine in six of the seven Asian, European and American markets subjected to a poll of consumers, the Japan External Trade Organization said Tuesday. The six markets are China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, France ...
According to folklore, Europeans have always treated their food with reverence, eating grandma’s slow-cooked stews concocted with farm-fresh ingredients while Americans wolfed down the genetically modified, chemically preserved junk symbolized by burgers and fries. Over the past two weeks, however, Europeans have watched an ...