Rice, Water, Earth: Notes on Sake
These posts are the continuation of my thoughts and reporting on sake for the James Beard award-winning Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake, which I co-wrote with sake sommelier and Sake Samurai Michael Tremblay.
How Japanese Sake Breweries are Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic
The double blow to craft breweries of losing domestic sales to big-city sake specialty bars and restaurants, along with the temporary collapse of the booming overseas market, has been devastating. Yet some markets, like the China export trade, are now bigger than before the pandemic.
When Did Sake Imports Arrive in America?
As thrifty Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrants) always did, one of them repurposed this crate—which was shipped from Japan filled with a dozen 1.8 liter bottles of sake, and shipped it to family back home in Okayama.