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Autumn on the Plate: Matsutake, Sanma, and the Arithmetic of Abundance Japan is the only country that names a season after appetite. But the foods that define shokuyoku no aki now arrive with numbers attached — and most of those numbers are counting downward. This is what abundance looks like once it has to be measu...

Summer on the Plate: Coolness as a Thing You Cook Japanese summer food is not simply food that happens to be cold. It is an engineered response to heat — a vegetable named for the wrong season, a fish eaten at its worst moment for reasons that have nothing to do with flavour, and a table where the bowl is chosen bef...