About Nancy Matsumoto

Nancy Matsumoto is a freelance journalist who writes about health, food, arts and culture. Her advice to other food-loving parents: Think twice before you introduce your 12-year-old to Kobe beef burgers.

For Saké’s Sake

Comment | December 1, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Elizabeth Leitzell

Message in a Bottle. Rick Smith and Hiroko Furukawa stock 150 bottles at their Ninth Street store—the only sake specialty shop on the East Coast.

Big Flavors in Little China

Comment | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Jena Cumbo

Just in time for Chinese New Year, Buddakan chef Yang Huang takes us on a downtown tour though the flavors of his homeland.

Osechi

Comment | October 16, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto | Photographs by Max Flatow

Japanese-Americans welcome the New Year with a special feast that can take weeks to prepare.

A farmed mullet, raised in Span and beloved by Blue Hill Dan Barber

Plankton is Awesome: From Spain, A Fish Farming Technique Beloved by Dan Barber

Comment | October 10, 2011 | By Nancy Matsumoto

Last week I saw the future of sustainable seafood. It involves plankton, lots of it. The occasion was a lunch at Blue Hill in Greenwich Village celebrating a fish farm in Southern Spain called Veta La Palma, where shrimp, sea…