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Black or white - choose your sesame!

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Black or white - choose your sesame!

As soon as you start cooking Japanese food, you can hardly get past the small grains. However, sesame is grown around the Himalayas. The white sesame seeds are probably known in almost every kitchen in the world. The black grains are not quite as popular, although they are considered the original form of the sesame plant... 

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Perilla, Shiso, Egoma - all the same?

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Perilla, Shiso, Egoma - all the same?

If you like Japanese cuisine, sooner or later you will encounter a herb with many names. You've probably heard the term shiso before. Without going too deep into botany, you can say that shiso is a herbaceous annual plant. Its green or purple leaves are suitable for cooking, but also used as a medicinal plant...

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Koji - A really noble mold

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Koji - A really noble mold

You probably don't think of mold in a good way. But koji is a special, very small fungus that creates culinary wonders in Japanese cuisine. Koji, or Aspergillus oryzae, has been known to man for more than two thousand years...

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Okara - Japanese superfood

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Okara - Japanese superfood

We love good vegetarian and vegan dishes, so today we're going to introduce you to one of them. Okara is a well-known and inexpensive food...

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Kintsugi - The teaching of beauty

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Kintsugi - The teaching of beauty

In Japan there are many ancient traditions and teachings. One of them is to accept the imperfection of life...

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