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Wasabi: The Plant That Almost No One Actually Eats Real wasabi grows only in cold, running mountain water — which is why the green paste beside your sushi is, overwhelmingly, something else entirely. Here is an uncomfortable fact to begin with: the little green mound you have almost certainly eaten alongside sushi w...

Where Tea Becomes Itself: The Regional Geography of Japanese Green Tea The same species of plant, grown fifty kilometers apart, produces two teas so different in flavor they seem to come from different worlds. Japan's tea regions are not simply growing areas. They are distinct expressions of soil, altitude, water, a...