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Based in Toronto, Canada, Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor who covers sustainable agriculture, food, sake, arts and culture.

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Some of Canada’s Best Chinese Food is Served Inside a Curling Club
Feb 1

Feb 1 Some of Canada’s Best Chinese Food is Served Inside a Curling Club

Nancy Matsumoto
Air Canada En Route

Chop Suey Nation author Ann Hui shares her favourite Chinese restaurants in the country.


Sequoia Sake: Leaving the Tech World to Brew Sake
Nov 15

Nov 15 Sequoia Sake: Leaving the Tech World to Brew Sake

Nancy Matsumoto
KCET

It's your typical Bay Area start-up, except rice, not digitally based.

Meet the Japanese Sake Brewers Taking Cues From French Winemakers
Nov 13

Nov 13 Meet the Japanese Sake Brewers Taking Cues From French Winemakers

Nancy Matsumoto
Air Canada En Route

Sake brewers in Japan are adopting French techniques to craft sake's nouvelle vague with local rice and indigenous yeast.

Canada's Best New Restaurants 2018
Oct 26

Oct 26 Canada's Best New Restaurants 2018

Nancy Matsumoto
Air Canada En Route

Discover the 10 most inventive and mind-bogglingly delicious places to eat in the country.

The 2018 Contenders: Canada’s Top 10 New Restaurants 2018
Aug 9

Aug 9 The 2018 Contenders: Canada’s Top 10 New Restaurants 2018

Nancy Matsumoto
Air Canada En Route
The End of an Era: Local Food Champion Mary Cleaver Exits Chelsea Market for Brooklyn
Jul 31

Jul 31 The End of an Era: Local Food Champion Mary Cleaver Exits Chelsea Market for Brooklyn

Nancy Matsumoto
Edible Manhattan
Learning to Listen to the Ecosystem
Jul 17

Jul 17 Learning to Listen to the Ecosystem

Nancy Matsumoto
Stone Barns Blog
Arva at Aman Tokyo Hotel: Channeling Italy through a Japanese Sensibility
Jul 3

Jul 3 Arva at Aman Tokyo Hotel: Channeling Italy through a Japanese Sensibility

Nancy Matsumoto
Electrify Magazine
Inside the Push to Bring Racial Equity to Land Grant Universities
May 30

May 30 Inside the Push to Bring Racial Equity to Land Grant Universities

Nancy Matsumoto
Civil Eats
After Years Of Violence, Chef Offers Colombian Farmers Pride And Profit
Mar 19

Mar 19 After Years Of Violence, Chef Offers Colombian Farmers Pride And Profit

Nancy Matsumoto
NPR/The Salt

Columbian chef Leonor Espinosa has made it her mission to revive traditional agriculture, ancestral foodways and culinary know-how among rural, mainly indigenous and Afro-Colombian people.

Mar 12
Mar 12 How Locavores and Strong Allies Can Bring Justice to the Food System

Nancy Matsumoto
YES! Magazine

Feb 27
Feb 27 Dan Barber’s Seed Company Seeks to Sow the ‘Democratization of Flavor’

Nancy Matsumoto
Civil Eats

Can a renowned chef, a seed breeder, and a farmer reinvent your favorite vegetables? That's the hope behind Row 7 Seed Co.

Jan 8
Jan 8 A Lucky Year for Chinese Real-Estate Buyers

Nancy Matsumoto
The Wall Street Journal

Some real-estate agents are reporting a positive reaction to the auspicious year of 2018.

Dec 14
Dec 14 The USDA Rolled Back Protections For Small Farmers. Now The Farmers Are Suing

Nancy Matsumoto
NPR/The Salt

Many of the farmers affected by the rollback supported Donald Trump for president, believing his promise to look after their interests. Now, the disillusionment is setting in.

Oct 31
Oct 31 'Fasting And Feasting': The Remarkable Life of Patience Gray

Nancy Matsumoto
NPR/The Salt

"Doing her own thing" meant pursuing interests that presaged today's slow food movement.

Oct 17
Oct 17 Food Politics: How Wild Rice Is Helping This Native American Tribe Restore Its Health—and Its Heritage

Nancy Matsumoto
Rodale's Organic Life

Bringing wild rice back to the shores of North America is part of a movement to reclaim Native culture.

Sep 14
Sep 14 At Chef Michael Stadtländer’s Farmhouse, Dinner Is Served

Nancy Matsumoto
The Wall Street Journal

From the forests of southern Ontario, the chef and his wife, Nobuyo, host multicourse dinners at their eclectic farmhouse; bartered meals (and a Texas Red Wattle pig) helped cover the costs of renovations.

Sep 13
Sep 13 A Sake-Brewer’s House Steeped in Tradition

Nancy Matsumoto
The Wall Street Journal

A 200-year-old Japanese house has evolved for modern lifestyles but stays true to its heritage.

Sep 1
Sep 1 Ignore the Lame Excuses: What 300,000 Escaped Salmon Prove About Factory Fish Farming

Nancy Matsumoto
YES! Magazine

Sustainable-food advocates want to love aquaculture—yet it comes with so many risks.

Jul 31
Jul 31 To Help Keep Sturgeon Sustainable, Farm And Fishery Work Together

Nancy Matsumoto
NPR/The Salt
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Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor based in Toronto, Canada.