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The Grain at the Center: How Rice Made Japan Before it was a food, rice was a reason to organize a landscape, a calendar, a religion, and a state. To understand Japan, you have to start in the flooded field. Fly over rural Japan in early summer and the country reveals its oldest logic from the air. Between the mount...

How to Cook Rice Like It Matters In Japan, rice is not a side dish. It is the center of the meal, the measure of a cook's attention, and a living expression of respect — for the ingredient, for the season, and for the people at the table. There is a Japanese word — gohan — that means both "cooked rice" and "meal." T...