Soup with mochi rice cakes is an indispensable dish during the New Year. Various…

"Ami to Daikon no Nitsuke (Boiled Mysids and Daikon Radish)" is a dish made by s…

"The Kamogata-cho area of Asakuchi City", located in the southwestern part of Ok…

Okayama Prefecture's catch of octopuses is among the largest in the country. The…

Yubeshi is a rice cake confection made with yuzu and walnuts, historically devel…

Kusagina are the dried young leaves of kusagi, a plant which grows wild in the c…

Hinase is a town located in the southeastern part of Okayama prefecture, on the …

“Todomese” is sushi simmered in a mixture of rice and vinegar. Its history stret…

The first day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, after rice planting was …

Hiruzen Okowa is a type of rice with many ingredients, generally called Gomoku O…

Vinegared mamakari is widely known as a local dish of Okayama Prefecture. Mamaka…

In the mountainous northern part of Okayama Prefecture, a surprisingly large num…

Matsuri-zushi, also called "Okayama-bara-zushi" or "Bizen-bara-zushi," is made f…