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This guide explores Japanese tofu’s rich history and techniques, detailing foundational varieties like momen and kinu, transformed styles like aburaage, and its essential role in Zen Buddhist shōjin ryōri cuisine.

Soybeans, Salt, and Time: What Miso Is, and Why It Tastes the Way It Does Inside Japan's oldest pantry staple — the soybeans, the salt, the koji, and the months of patient transformation that make miso unlike anything else on earth. Open a tub of good miso and bring it close. Before you taste it, smell it. There is ...