For the uninitiated, understanding sake can be tough. Its production process is entirely different from wine and beer. A variety of sake quality categories are also predicated on how finely ground the ...

You’ve mastered single-malt and bested craft beer; you’ve even solved the mysteries of mezcal and speak reasonable rum. But what of that clear — and clearly baffling — Japanese rice beverage called ...

If you’ve only thought to order a bottle of sake with your sushi, think again: That bottle of sake on the back bar may be the underdog of the spirits world, ready to take your next meal to the next ...

Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. To drink sake or to drink wine, that is the question. As sake sales have skyrocketed ...

For the month of October, LoLa 41 is featuring flights of different Japanese sakes — each with a unique flavor profile — and suggesting which of the restaurant’s menu items guests might want to pair ...

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For years, most Americans knew sake — assuming they knew it at all — as a hot, jet fuel-like drink sipped from thimble-sized cups between bites of sushi. Turns out, we were swallowing schlock. "There ...

Japanese short-grain rice, when prepared for sushi, is known for its ability to stick together while maintaining the integrity of each individual grain of rice. Sushi chefs know that the rice, mixed ...

Sake. A four-letter word we either love or love to hate. Co-founders, Jon Rugg and Troy Nakamatsu of Sawtelle Sake have decidedly turned sake on its head, but it’s not as easy as they make it look. It ...

Sake is slowly gaining a foothold on drinks menus nationwide, but a local sake expert thinks the beverage has the potential to be even bigger in Seattle.”I realize sake doesn’t fit our locavore ...

Cicero, N.Y. — Sneaky. It’s the word I kept jotting down in my notes about Sake Bomb in Cicero during our recent Friday evening visit. The restaurant? Sneaky big. The building doesn’t look like much ...