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Steve Trautlein
For Steve Trautlein's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Jan 25, 2013
Snacking on squid guts and soybeans
Doritos and Budweiser, canapes and Champagne, jamon and Tempranillo — when it comes to happy hour, everyone has their favorite combination of booze and umami-infused treats.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2013
White paper chronicles rise of ramen worldwide
Ramen's rise to global prominence has taken many forms: Japanese noodle shops debuting to great acclaim overseas, from Sydney to Honolulu to London; the proliferation of English-language ramen blogs; international chefs incorporating elements of the dish into their cuisine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 11, 2013
Overseas restaurants set up shop in Japan
Call it the Pancake Revolution.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Dec 21, 2012
Food festivals: all yesterday's parties
The best of 2012 The inaugural Tama Geta Shoku no Saiten in Hachioji offered locavores a chance to sample the creative cuisine of western Tokyo. Thirty vendors showed off dishes such as motsu yaki-udon, a bowl of beef tripe and noodles from the town of Mizuho in Nishitama, and the "Tokyo-X" hot dog, a mammoth German-style wiener made with smoked pork from Fussa City. It seems likely that the event, held in May on the grounds of the Tokyo Summerland water park, will become a fixture of the Japanese food-fest scene — more than 35,000 people attended the first edition.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 23, 2012
Meet the ambassadors
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Nov 23, 2012
Japan's white-collar feeding grounds
Forget izakaya, soba restaurants and divey Chinese eateries — if you really want to see salarymen in mass munching mode, catch them in their natural habitat at the office shokudō (cafeteria), where colleagues rub shoulders daily over a tray of freshly made rations. Besides delivering sustenance to the world's busiest worker bees, the spots featured here all offer a little something extra. (The icon indicates venues open to the public.)
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Oct 26, 2012
Women — the essential B-kyū ingredient
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Sep 28, 2012
Diversifying Japan's biggest food festival
From its origins as a regional festival in the backwaters of Aomori Prefecture, the B-1 Grand Prix has attained a status of Fuji Rock-like proportions. The seven-year-old event, which attracts enthusiasts of local cooking from around Japan, almost single-handedly kick-started the country's obsession with B-kyu gurume (B-grade gourmet). The last two editions, in Kanagawa and Hyogo prefectures, drew nearly half a million people each.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 1, 2012
Welcome to ramen land
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Aug 24, 2012
The chow-down tour of Kanto's local dishes
This month's Everyman Eats column brings you popular culinary affordable oddities from Tokyo and its surrounding prefectures — served with a dash of local culture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Jul 27, 2012
How cheap cuisine can save your town
Shigeru Tamura looks remarkably trim for someone whose hobby is eating fried noodles. Over a lunch at a yakisoba restaurant on the backstreets of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, the 49-year-old author and law professor admits he dines out as often as twice a day. Then he pushes aside his plate of noodles and pulls a digital pedometer from his trouser pocket.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Jun 29, 2012
Digging in: the rise of B-kyū gurume
Everyman Eats is a new column about the phenomenon of B-kyū gurume (B-grade gourmet) — inexpensive, down-home cooking that reflects local culinary traditions. This first installment considers 10 moments that helped shape the recent B-kyū boom.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 10, 2012
Sweet somethings
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 11, 2011
A taste of home: Life after National Azabu
Ask local expats what they miss most from their homelands, and they might tell you about Fig Newton cookies (Americans), Shreddies breakfast cereal (Brits), fresh coriander (Thais) or morning congee (Chinese). In other words, an authentic taste of home.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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