TOKYO — The world's great cuisines can regale the eye and the palate. Or, alternatively, they may celebrate the plain and exalt the humble — for example, by recreating home-style comfort food in a ...

Onigiri is about eating rice. The filling is the added bonus, to give the otherwise plain rice some flavor and punch. Here onigiri gets some oomph from the smoke and char of the grill (or grill pan) ...

TOKYO (AP) — Onigiri is a ball of rice with something inside, similar to how two slices of bread with something in between makes a sandwich. In the same way that just about every American has made and ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. Onigiri, a Japanese staple of hand-packed rice ...

As chef of n/naka, her celebrated California kaiseki restaurant in Palms, Niki Nakayama painstakingly and famously tries to never repeat a menu for any diner. Nakayama and her sous chef and wife, ...

Miki Yamada prepares onigiri rice balls for her catering business at home in Tokyo - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Miki Yamada prepares onigiri rice balls for her ...

With the Japanese Yen at an all-time low and increased inflation numbers pinching pocketbooks, Japanese companies have been eager for any form of reprieve. A recent upswing in rice export prices has ...