Tonkatsu, a fried pork cutlet, came from French chefs cooking in the imperial court after Japan opened to the West during the Meiji period of the late 1800s. And curry arrived when the English ...

In 1944, a year before the Pacific War ended, civilians on the home front suffered from severe food shortages as the fighting ...

Japanese homemaker Kirina Mochizuki has always considered "okonomiyaki" savoury pancakes the ultimate comfort food: simple, ...

Sakai routinely wafues Western dishes — she is pushing the use of wafu as a verb ... author of the cookbook “Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style.” (Rick Poon/Knopf via ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style," a cookbook by Sonoko Sakai ... Sakai routinely wafues Western dishes — she is pushing the use of wafu as ...