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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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Nov 10
Nov 10 Rumiko Obata, Obata Sake Brewery

Nancy Matsumoto
Sake Today

A fifth-generation sake brewery owner forsakes life in the big city and returns home to Sado Island, ushering the family business into a new era of international prominence.

Oct 25
Oct 25 Tina Antolini and Sara Camp Milam are Tracking Southern Food Culture

Nancy Matsumoto
Food & Wine, Civil Eats

With a print journal and a podcast, these two women are exploring the rich culinary history of the changing American south

Oct 7
Oct 7 Inside a Magical Pine-Themed Dinner

Nancy Matsumoto
Food & Wine

Watching chef-artist Michael Stadtländer in his element, a 100-acre Ontario forest, conjuring a 12-course dinner with wine pairings. 

Aug 23
Aug 23 Williamsburg’'s New Fish Butcher Aims to Prevent Food Waste

Nancy Matsumoto
Edible Brooklyn

Osakana specializes in high-quality sustainable fish and offers classes in cooking and butchering fish.

Aug 2
Aug 2 Meet the Bee Heroes Working On the Front Lines to Save Pollinators

Nancy Matsumoto
Civil Eats

Can these scientists help our pollinators before it's too late?

Jun 28
Jun 28 Inside a Minimalist Florida Kitchen

Nancy Matsumoto
The Wall Street Journal

Annotated Room: Colombian-born designer Catalina Echavarria wanted to create ‘hang-out space’ drenched in white for her family’s home in Coconut Grove, Fla. A look at the costs.

Jun 20
Jun 20 This City Slicker Couple Makes Some of the Northeast’s Best Cheese

Nancy Matsumoto
Edible Manhattan

In addition to the city’s top cheese shops and Greenmarkets, you’ll find Consider Bardwell’s cheese at Daniel, Eleven Madison Park and Roberta’s.

Jun 14
Jun 14 The Grassfed Burger Gap

Nancy Matsumoto
Civil Eats

The number of restaurants serving grassfed burgers is growing, but most are eschewing ground beef from small-scale U.S. producers in favor of foreign meat.

Jun 1
Jun 1 Erin Fairbanks is Broadcasting Food System Change, Live From Brooklyn

Nancy Matsumoto
Food & Wine

How the executive director of Heritage Radio Networks grew into her role as a food systems thought leader.

May 6
May 6 Revisiting Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray: An interview with Robert Nakamura and Karen Ishizuka

Nancy Matsumoto
DiscoverNikkei.org

Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.

May 1
May 1 Powered by Microbials: Organic Farming, Japanese Style

Nancy Matsumoto
Acres USA

My visit to Konohana Family, an intentional community and organic farm at the foot of Mt. Fuji.

Mar 15
Mar 15 The Good (& Green) Life: Say "aloha" to Constantin Bisanz, tech start-up entrepreneur

Nancy Matsumoto
Naturally Danny Seo

Bisanz sold his company to eBay for millions; his new mission is to democratize healthy living with his online wellness comapany ALOHA

Mar 11
Mar 11 Fukushima Sake Diary: Five Years after 3.11, Spreading the Gospel of Natural and Organic Sake

Nancy Matsumoto
Ignition

Profile of pioneering sake maker Yasuhiko Niida

Feb 16
Feb 16 JANM Photo Exhibit: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank

Nancy Matsumoto
DiscoverNikkei.org

Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.

Feb 8
Feb 8 Marie Kondo: The Queen of Clean

Nancy Matsumoto
People

Japan's Decluttering Dynamo Has Shown Millions The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

 

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