All you need for pink, salty and puckery umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums) are plums and fine sea salt. (Betty Hallock) I’ve been addicted to umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums) since I was a kid who ...

Ayako Iino grew up in Nagoya, Japan, the largest city in the Chūbu region. Like many kids, she watched her mom make umeboshi, a traditional salt-cured plum pickle (and alkalizing dietary staple that’s ...

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It is not surprising that Japan is home to some of the longest-living people in the world. Many everyday foods in Japan are super healthy, and the cuisine is based on natural, nutritious ingredients.

Umeboshi are also often included in bentō; since olden times, people have learned that the pickle’s acidity helps make the rice less perishable. Incidentally, bentō containing a single umeboshi on a ...

Good Food Southern Fried Chicken, Umeboshi, The Fallacy of Expiration Dates This week we discuss fried chicken with a ninth-generation Southerner and Sonoko Sakai teaches us about umeboshi (Japanese ...

I’ve been addicted to umeboshi (Japanese pickled plums) since I was a kid who didn’t like much else, but I never thought to make my own until the pandemic-instigated lockdown. By the time I took my ...