Tag - bread

 
Menu
Search
 
December 22, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

BREAD

Seven Eleven officials receives a Guinness World Records' certificate for its product as the most sold freshly made curry bread in volume in 2023 during a ceremony in Saitama Prefecture on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2024
7-Eleven's curry bread certified by Guinness World Records
The ¥160 bread, fried in store, logged 76,987,667 pieces sold.
Breads developed to be eaten cold are displayed during an event in Tokyo in April.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 13, 2024
Shops promoting 'cold bread' hope to boost sales in summer
One company is promoting cat-shaped bread that can be eaten frozen.
The original recipe for a "toast sandwich" has the added option of cold cuts, though the dish has since been reimagined with bone marrow and other lavish ingredients.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
May 12, 2024
Recipe: Japanese bread sandwich (yes, really)
This is not a sandwich made between slices of toast, nor is it a toasted sandwich.
Pasco Shikishima has recalled 104,000 packs of its white Chojuku bread after parts of a rat's body were discovered in two of them.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 9, 2024
Japan bread recalled after rat parts found inside packs
Pasco Shikishima has recalled over 100,000 packets of its processed white Chojuku bread and suspended the assembly line that produces it pending a probe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2023
Food price hikes in Japan this year are already topping 2022
Bread products, in particular, are set to see price rises in July after the government raised the price of imported wheat.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 10, 2023
Kristina Ganea: With sourdough, ‘the more you fail, the more you learn’
Smell something good wafting from a shop in Tokyo’s Hiroo neighborhood? That’s probably because Kristina Ganea has something delicious in the oven.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Top 5
Apr 9, 2023
Tokyo’s best ‘melon bread' is sweeter than meets the eye
A murky history and an inscrutable name can't keep this baked treat from being one of the best morsels in town.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 20, 2022
Parklet’s bread and breakfasts bring a taste of California to Nihonbashi
Parklet is a bakery and cafe with a West Coast vibe. Standouts on the menu include its fruit bread and several creative spreads for your morning slice.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Jan 2, 2022
Recipe: Sourdough onion focaccia
Try a little 'koji alchemy' of your own at home with this recipe for an onion-flavored loaf.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 17, 2021
‘Mooncakes & Milk Bread’: A warm, floury hug of nostalgia for Chinese bakeries
Kristina Cho dedicates her book to the staples and sweet treats of Chinese bakeries, but many of the foolproof recipes will be familiar to readers in Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 16, 2021
Recipe: Kristina Cho’s hot dog flower buns
These Chinese bakery-influenced, photogenic buns are so cute, you'll be hard-pressed to bite into them once they're out of the oven.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Oct 2, 2021
Recipe: Persimmon panzanella (bread salad)
Make the most of your glut of fall produce and leftover bread with this persimmon panzanella. An added bonus, it easily scales up to feed any guests arriving at your door.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Sep 25, 2021
A recipe for 10-minute melonpan toast
When the craving for melonpan strikes, this fluffy, crunchy, sweet treat can be in your mouth in less time than it takes for a bakery run.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Top 5
Jul 10, 2021
Where to find the best karēpan in Tokyo
From originators to usurpers and upstarts, Tokyo's curry bread scene is full of spice. Here's a roundup of some of the capital's famous karu0113pan purveyors
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Jul 3, 2021
Bring back the baking boom with these sourdough crumpets
Use up your surplus sourdough starter to make these addictive crumpets u2026 and then go one step further and make breakfast dorayaki.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
May 1, 2021
Tokyo’s restaurants have a story to tell. Somekind Japan’s ‘Take away Tokyo’ series helps them do it.
With the purchase of a book written by and about their favorite restaurants, foodies can support local establishments and learn more about the people behind them.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
May 1, 2021
How to make Bricolage Bread & Co.’s bonito tartine
In this delectable tartine, the bakery's signature sourdough is topped with lightly grilled bonito and whole shiso leaves.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 27, 2021
Top 5: The best vegan dessert spots in Tokyo
These five vegan sweet sensations are sure to satisfy your sugar cravings (and perhaps win over a skeptic or two).
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 26, 2020
Top 5: The best bakeries in Tokyo
Shokupan giving you a resting bread face? The Japan Times recommends five bakeries that hit the sweet spot between technique, innovation and taste.
Freed anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrives in France
U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling environmental activist Paul Watson, who was released from prison in Greenland's capital Nuuk after five months in detention, arrives with Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France, at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, near Paris, on Friday.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.
The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’
Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER