Food & Drink | NATURE'S PANTRY Jan 2, 2019
Could potato flour revitalize a small town in Iwate Prefecture?
by Nancy Singleton Hachisu
According to Katsuyasu Ito, chef and owner of L'Aureole Tanohata, Hidemitsu Kikuchi, is the last person producing imo no kona (potato flour) commercially in Japan. Working in Tanohata, a tiny village on the Sanriku coast of northeastern Iwate Prefecture, Kikuchi should be heartily applauded for ...