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  • Palms damp with salt water gently pressing an umeboshi-filled rice triangle, beside four onigiri in different historical shapes — flat grilled disc, sesame bale, nori-wrapped, and plain.
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    The Rice Ball That Wasn’t: Onigiri and Two Thousand Years of Food You Can Hold

    The Rice Ball That Wasn't: Onigiri and Two Thousand Years of Food You Can Hold Japan's oldest rice ball is not quite a rice ball. Its seaweed wrapper only became the norm about a century ago, and its triangle was standardized by the convenience-store industry. The one thing that has lasted is the hand. In November 1...
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