Mari’s Homemade Cooking Recipes

How to make Tonkatsu (Pork Cutlet) とんかつ
Ingredients (4 servings): • 4 center cut pork chops • Salt and pepper • 1 cup of panko (Japanese breadcrumbs) • 1 egg, beaten • Flour • Vegetable oil for frying • Tonkatsu sauce • Shredded cabbage

The Man Who Brought Sushi to America, Part III

Introducing Japanese Food Culture to America
This is the third in a series of interviews with Noritoshi Kanai, chairman of Mutual Trading and the man who coined the phrase “sushi bar.”
TJ : Can you tell us about Rocky Aoki and Benihana? KANAI : Rocky Aoki and I were introducing Japanese

Mari’s Homemade Cooking Recipes

TEMPURA is fried vegetables and fish battered with flour and eggs. The typical ingredients of tempura are the white fish called kisu, shrimp, sweet potato, renkon (Japanese lotus root) and other vegetables. There are two main streams of tempura depending on the area in Japan. Fish tempura was devel

The Man Who Brought Sushi to America, Part II

How Yul Brynner and “Shogun” Made Sushi Popular
TJ: Can you tell us what you did before you became involved with Mutual Trading? KANAI: World War II was a very big shock to me. So after the war I read about philosophy. I was very interested in Robert Owen, a famous English philosopher. I t

The Man Who Brought Sushi to America

The Man Who Brought Sushi to America By Dr. Anthony Al-Jamie
This is the first in a series of interviews with Noritoshi Kanai, President of Mutual Trading, the man who coined the phrase “sushi bar”.
TJ: When did you become President of Mutual Trading? KANAI: 1976.
TJ: Who was the or

Tsukiji in Tokyo

The world’s largest fish market thrills the senses
WHEN the new facilities for Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market were opened in 1935, the architects probably never imagined it would become such a popular tourist attraction. People from all over the world come in vast numbers to see the globe’s largest fish

Where Tradition Meets Modern Taste

Morita Nenohi is a legendary sake brewer south of Nagoya, Japan. It was established in 1665 by the Moritas, a family best known for the fifteenth head of the family business: Sony co-founder Akio Morita. Nenohi is a dry, well-balanced sake.
Legendary Morita Nenohi Sake
It is made using tradit

Mari’s Homemade Cooking Recipes

Ingredients • 250g of sliced pork or beef • Lettuce • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce • 1 tablespoon of mirin • 1 tablespoon of miso • 1/2 tablespoon of sake
Meat filling
Ingredients • 250g of sliced pork or beef • Lettuce • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce • 1 tablespoon of mirin • 1 tablesp

LUXURIOUS ECO TOURISM

Accessible only by floatplane, a luxurious floating lodge operates for four months a year in the heart of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, one of the last untouched corners of Canada and the world.
King Pacific Lodge
Sustainable Luxury
How do you build a five-star hotel in one of