The Okinawa diet: what the centenarians actually ate
Purple sweet potato, goya, tofu, pork: the traditional Okinawan diet as the surveys measured it, and why it had already vanished by the time its legend began.
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Japan
Food11 min
Ramune: the marble soda of Japan
The full history of ramune, Japan's iconic marble soda. Victorian origins, the Codd bottle, flavours, the opening ritual, and its enduring place in Japanese pop culture.
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Japan
Food11 min
Nigiri, maki, chirashi: the great families of sushi
From fermented narezushi to Edo fast food, the neta, the shari, the itamae's ten years and the etiquette of the counter: everything the word sushi covers.
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