More high school students in the Tokyo metropolitan area usually have rice for breakfast than bread, according to a survey by Norinchukin Bank — the first time the traditional grain has topped its Western rival since the bank began the survey in 2005. For ...
Encountering strangers on trips back to Europe, I find myself falling into a familiar conversational call-and-response: Where do you live? Osaka. Really? But isn’t Japan very expensive? No, these days a city like Osaka has living costs comparable with Berlin or Glasgow. But with ...
For most of modern history, the Japanese failed to understand the point of the baguette — known locally as furansu pan (French bread) — and shunned the globally coveted Gallic specialty, thinking it was hard and tasteless. Carried by almost every bakery in Tokyo, ...
Britons may have discovered a taste for bread thousands of years earlier than previously thought, thanks to trade with more advanced neighbors on the European continent. That’s the conclusion scientists have drawn after discovering that samples from a now-submerged prehistoric camp in southern England ...
Few things in this world are more pleasurable than sinking your teeth into heavily herbed, charcoal-grilled paidakia, the fabled lamb chops adored and revered by the Greeks. “The art is in the grilling,” says Savvas Mallouri, Cypriot father of a longtime friend and a ...
Bread maker Hofuku, which has admitted one of its products is probably responsible for causing more than 1,000 children in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to suffer food poisoning, has started recalling its products from retailers, including supermarkets in Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Aichi and Okayama prefectures. According ...
Introduced as a military exercise rather than a staple, bread in Japan has an unusual history.
When the recession gives you bread heels, make sweets, doughnuts and pizza crusts.
