L’Effervescence chef Shinobu Namae serving up crazy yummy bowls of his ramen made with Yusuke Sezaki’s katsuobushi from his company Kaneshichi. Yum!

I had the extremely good fortune to be invited to speak at Tokyo’s first annual Fermentation Future Forum (F3) a couple weeks ago. The forum was organized by cultural luminary Teruo Kurosaki and his bright and creative staff. Kurosaki-san is a world renowned designer, former owner of Idee, founder of the Tokyo United Nations University Farmers Ma...