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.
Genki Ito: Building Tippsy, America’s Largest Online Sake Retailer
Tippsy has grown to a staff of more than 15, which operates out of a 5,000-square-foot warehouse space in Carson, south of Los Angeles.
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.