How does your rice taste? A new Japanese dictionary is cooking up a wealth of words for the country’s revered staple
In January, at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation (Naro) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture, food researcher Fumiyo Hayakawa and others were engaged in heated discussions over freshly cooked rice. A collaborative effort is under way to refine and define the terminology used to describe rice. Photo: Getty Image They tried to define terminology that … Read more
