Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. If you go to a nice Japanese restaurant in New York, you will almost certainly ...

A new era is born.

Sunflower Sake Photo by Nina Murphy. Portland’s first shop dedicated solely to sake is now open inside a speakeasy alleyway, serving varieties you’d never find at your average neighborhood sushi ...

“The future of sake is the wine audience,” Richard Geoffroy tells me over a dinner at Joji, George Ruan’s omakase restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Geoffroy knows something about the wine audience, ...