Green is the color of an edible spring garden. But perhaps you have a taste for other colors. Red foliage is relatively rare in the edible plot, found in lettuces, mustards and a few others. But ...

If you’ve ever had a tray of sushi or a Japanese bento box and noticed those strips of fake plastic grass separating the items, there’s a backstory to them that has become somewhat lost in translation ...

Unless you were raised in Japan or Korea where it's commonly available, chances are you discovered shiso leaf (perilla) as a garnish with sashimi. If your path to perilla was through Japanese cuisine, ...

In Japanese, “ooba” means “big leaf,” a name that indicates its size as leaves can be up to 7 inches in width. Ooba is another name for shiso, a staple in Japanese cuisine, and is available as green ...

That beautiful leaf, artfully placed under your toro (tuna belly) sashimi, isn’t just the Japanese equivalent of an old-school sprig of parsley. It’s a captivating herb that’s sort of cinnamon-y, sort ...

There are lots of unique tastes and textures in Japanese cuisine, and one of our favorite flavors among them has always been shiso. It’s sometimes called “Japanese basil,” but the exact taste of shiso ...

This punchy Japanese spaghetti is tart with pickled plum paste, rich with butter and fragrant with the citrusy-minty herb shiso. Japanese pickled plums (ume) have a distinctive sour-fruity-salty ...

This herb is far more than a garnish – and once you get a taste for it, you may find you want a ready supply Shiso perilla, better known as shiso in Japanese, tai to in Vietnamese and kkaennip or ...