Three Year Aged Yubeshi

Posted on Oct 19, 2013 in Hiroko's Blog

The other day Mr. Masakatsu Nakaura from Ishikawa   Prefecture, Japan, came to see me at my NY office, and presented me Yubeshi, which was placed in an elegant black box. His family company, Nakauraya, has been producing Yubeshi since 1910, and Mr. Nakaura is the fourth generation of the company. At a glance Yubeshi looks like a precious lacquered art object, even though it is a food product. Yubeshi is a mochi-filled yuzu citrus fruit and comes from NotoPeninsula,...

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