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We had originally wanted to have an event and make umeshu with everyone together at the bar, but thought the next best thing would be to show you how to...

Customers come into the store and ask us how to use the Copper Tamago Pan all the time. It's very hard to explain how to make it without actually cooking it in front of someone. So we decided to capture it...

Thanksgiving meals from across the U.S., kids try Chinese food and give their opinions, and a man who plays fruits and vegetables like instruments.

This video flips through Jiro Gastronomy, a full-color book of 60 pieces of sushi served at famed Tokyo restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. Get ready to drool...

The misokoshi is a tool that we have sold since we first opened our shop. It looks like a mini ramen strainer, but alas, it is for straining miso in liquid. Namely, it works perfectly for miso soup. Here's a video made...

As you know by now, Tori-chan is a dear friend of ours who opened Jicca, a restaurant and wine bar in the Hatagaya neighborhood in Tokyo nearly two years ago. She is a native of Minami-soma in Fukushima prefecture; a town that was...

Pro tips from a chef on how to take care of – and clean –your cast iron pan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9TPBDpeDyQ&feature=channel_video_title This is a short video by Tokyo-based photographer Nahoko Morimoto, which marvelously captures Yoko and my trip to Japan with the OPENharvest team. We spent three jam-packed weeks visiting farms, markets, taking brewery/distillery tours, and eating + drinking our way through Japan--all culminating in a huge event...

A few months ago Umamimart readers and fans helped us accomplish our fundraising goal and we set forth to make a pilot for our movie-inspired cooking show. Kitchen Revival,...

Our good friend and talented videographer Joe Stillwater (of Bright Spectrum) joined us on April 5th for our GIFT OF FOOD benefit in San Francisco. We raised over...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9wFSoMiiBQ My colleague Kristen who produces videos for Japan Society’s Youtube channel, asked me if I knew of any onigiri (rice balls) shops since they wanted to showcase them in an upcoming video. I thought, “How about I teach how to make onigiri in the video?” That’s how this...

Check it out! Umamimart's very own Sarah Nevada (The Big Feed and Old School Eats), an LA-based film producer, has embarked on a new project. Fork Your...

Meet Paystyle-- a dashing, whip-smart, er, smartass from Brooklyn by way of Los Angeles. He's got dreams. Dreams of someday calling it quits as a lawyer (94 hour work weeks,...