This video shows how to make traditional Japanese ume plum syrup using just ume plums and rock sugar. The plums are prepared ...

I FIRST FELL IN LOVE with the puckery-tart flavor of ume plums at the sushi bar. Frugality led me to it: A vegetarian roll made with salty plum paste and grassy shiso leaves was a very pleasant way to ...

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 ...

EDEN Ume Plum Vinegar just received Delicious Living magazine's 2016 Best Bite Award, selected 'Best Vinegar' in the vinegar category. This award is an affirmation of Eden Foods' purchasing criteria.

Continuing on with our tahini theme, today we combine this rich sesame paste with umeboshi. Described as the least sweet fruit, I consider ume a best-kept culinary secret. Tangy, salty, with a deep ...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. A Japanese white‑eye bird chirps in an ume plum grove in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in March 2025. (Asahi Shimbun ...

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 ...

A few months ago, Daniel Patterson changed the name of his Oakland restaurant Plum to Ume, which means plum in Japanese and signaled the transformation from an American- to a Japanese-inspired menu.

In recent years, Japanese whisky has enjoyed growing popularity worldwide, as well as a surge in prices. The Hibiki 17-Year-Old, the famous Japanese whisky by Suntory that was featured in the movie ...

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 ...