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MINAMI-UONUMA, Japan -- Chef Keiko Kuwakino is on a mission. She is preparing dinner for 20 guests at Sanaburi, her Michelin-starred restaurant at the luxury retreat Satoyama Jujo in rural Niigata prefecture, but she is short on udo (Japanese spikenard), a slightly bitter spring
MINAMI-UONUMA, Japan -- Chef Keiko Kuwakino is on a mission. She is preparing dinner for 20 guests at Sanaburi, her Michelin-starred restaurant at the luxury retreat Satoyama Jujo in rural Niigata prefecture, but she is short on udo (Japanese spikenard), a slightly bitter spring wild vegetable she has gathered for the menu. MINAMI-UONUMA, Japan -- Chef Keiko Kuwakino is on a mission.
She is preparing dinner for 20 guests at Sanaburi, her Michelin-starred restaurant at the luxury retreat Satoyama Jujo in rural Niigata prefecture, but she is short on udo (Japanese spikenard), a slightly bitter spring wild vegetable she has gathered for the menu. MINAMI-UONUMA, Japan -- Chef Keiko Kuwakino is on a mission. She is preparing dinner for 20 guests at Sanaburi, her Michelin-starred restaurant at the luxury retreat Satoyama Jujo in rural Niigata prefecture, but she is short on udo (Japanese spikenard), a slightly bitter spring wild vegetable she has gathered for the menu.
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