Spring on the Plate: Sakura, Bamboo Shoots, and the Taste of Beginnings
Spring on the Plate: Sakura, Bamboo Shoots, and the Taste of Beginnings Japanese spring food is built around a single idea — that a beginning has a flavor. It is faintly bitter, faintly sweet, wrapped in a salted leaf, and gone almost as soon as it arrives. Of all the seasons, spring is the one Japan seems most anxi...