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It started with a blog. Before there was Umami Mart, the carefully curated Japanese housewares store in downtown Oakland, there was Umami Mart the blog-- a space for two old friends to talk about food ...
Beer’s carbonation balances oysters’ brininess and cleanses the palate, making it a natural pairing that rivals traditional ...
TOKYO - The planned $100 billion merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller will be a wake-up call to the overseas ambitions of Japanese brewers, which are struggling to grow at home in a saturated ...
Until recently, if you ordered Japanese beer, there weren't many to choose from. Before the industry was deregulated in the 1990s, four major brewers — Asahi, Suntory, Sapporo and Kirin – controlled ...
Jake Maddux is on a mission. When I arrive at his restaurant and brewery on a drizzly January morning, he and head brewer Brent Watson are setting up a tasting — three groupings of nine snifters ...