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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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Dec 1
Dec 1 Olivia On...:Olivia Roszkowski, the culinary mad scientist who uses her neuroscience background to come up with ingenious vegan ingredient substitutions.

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Naturally Danny Seo

Profile on a chef/instructor at Manhattan's Natural Gourmet Institute

Nov 5
Nov 5 Bon Yagi: Emperor of New York's Japanese East Village, Part 1

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DiscoverNikkei.org

Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.

Nov 5
Nov 5 Bon Yagi: Emperor of New York's Japanese East Village - Part 2

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DiscoverNikkei.org

Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.

Oct 30
Oct 30 Farming to Table: Adding 'Farmer" to a Chef's Resume

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Civil Eats

How Green Table’s Mary Cleaver and her husband Ashley Hollister are working a farm into their sustainable restaurant and catering business.

Oct 28
Oct 28 5 High-End Mailboxes to Match Your Home's Style

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The Wall Street Journal

From Aesh Design’s architectural rectangle to Oakland Living’s antique mail vault, here are a variety of high-end letter boxes with price tags to match

Oct 23
Oct 23 Master Sake Brewer Miho Imada

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Medium

Making it in the man's world of craft brewing.

Oct 5
Oct 5 Where, and Why, You Should be Going Out on the Upper East Side

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Edible Manhattan

"Let's do dinner uptown," said no one ever--until now.

Oct 1
Oct 1 Sake's thousand-year-old legacy of fermentation gets an update for modern tastes

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

The growing number of high-quality sakes available both nationwide and in the Twin Cities makes this a good time to get familiar with sake

Sep 29
Sep 29 A Mother's Farewell to Heart Mountain

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DiscoverNikkei.org

My mother's reaction to returning to a WWII U.S. government prison camp 70 years after her release.

Jun 11
Jun 11 Mark Amadei's Country Mile of Luxury

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The Wall Street Journal

The New York restaurateur and real-estate adviser has restored a 1774 Bucks County, Pa., estate and filled it with art

Jun 4
Jun 4 Brooklyn Metal Sculptor Vallessa Monk Plays With Fire

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The Wall Street Journal

Armed with four welding machines, a plasma cutter, anvil and tools for bending, texturing and hammering, Vallessa Monk sculpts home décor from bronze and steel.

Jun 2
Jun 2 A Pasture-Based Rancher is Caught in the Crosshairs

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Civil Eats

A sustainable farmer faces animal abuse charges, and fights back.

Jun 1
Jun 1 Where to Drink Sake in New York City

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Sake Today

My guide to the best sake bars in New York City

Mar 12
Mar 12 The Yeast Hunters: Revitalizing Japan's Ancient Sake Tradition

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Punch

At Tokyo's top agricultural university's department of brewing and fermentation, one professor's quest for flower yeasts

Feb 3
Feb 3 How New York's Sake Scene Got Serious

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Edible Manhattan

A look at the rise in quality of jizake, or small-batch, artisanal sake in Japan, and how New Yorkers have embraces it.

Jan 29
Jan 29 Maple Water: Fad or Lifeline for Forests?

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Civil Eats

The product might provide an economic incentive to keep more trees standing.

Jan 1
Jan 1 Mochitsuki: Japan’s Nostalgic New Year’s Tradition

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Saveur

On one community in Livingston, California that still pounds New Year's mochi rice cakes the old way, and the soup they love, ozoni.

 

Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor based in Toronto, Canada.