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		<title>Why is Ocean Water not Packed in Umami?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just soaking kombu seaweed in the water for a while makes water turns into magic water filled with umami and minerals. Thus, kombu seaweed is often called the king of seaweed. However, have you wonder if kombu seaweed turns water into dashi stock, why ocean never turns into delicious, mild water, instead of plain salt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/05/why-is-ocean-water-not-packed-in-umami/</link>
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		<title>The best-before date of kombu seaweed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that kombu seaweed that is used for dashi stock doesn’t have a real expiration date? At the grocery store, any packaged product, including kombu seaweed, is required to print expiration date on their package. As long as kombu seaweed is kept in dark cold place, it can be used for almost forever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/04/the-best-before-date-of-kombu-seaweed/</link>
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		<title>Japanese pickles within few hours!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japanese pickles is one of the comes out a lot on Japanese breakfast table from long time ago. Pickles were used as hashiyasume. It literally means resting chopsticks and enjoyed during each plate to refresh your palate with different flavor and flavor between main dish and side dish, enhancing the other dishes. There are many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/03/japanese-pickles-within-few-hours/</link>
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		<title>Entrance exam season and food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the  season of entrance exam in Japan in February. People in Japan needs to pass the entrance exam in Japan in order to attend high school and college, even some kindergarten requires entrance exam. For college entrance exam, there are standardized exam and individual exam and applicant must take both exam and pass. Unlike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/02/entrance-exam-season-and-food/</link>
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		<title>Reusing kombu seaweed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kombu seaweed is used by many as a basis and to extract hint of Japanese cuisine in form of dashi stock and many other ways. However, not many people know that kombu seaweed that has been used once for dashi stock still holds plenty of umami and nutrition in it and can be used. By [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/02/reusing-kombu-seaweed/</link>
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		<title>Traditional practice to celebrate coming spring in Japan.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan has distinctive season and it is engraved in our daily life and cultural events. Beginning of seasons is supposedly set on a calendar day and on the first day of season, often traditional ceremony held. Since, seasons calendar uses Chinese calendar, this year’s beginning of spring was on February 5th. The day before spring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/02/traditional-practice-to-celebrate-coming-spring-in-japan/</link>
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		<title>Secret of umami revealed by science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are 5 fundamental taste receptors in human gestation including sweetness, bitterness, sourness, saltiness and umami. Umami is often translated as a savory flavor and its unique characteristic is synergetic effect when used with other ingredients, bumping up the umami drastically. Japanese chefs have known this fact long ago before umami was discovered from their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/01/secret-of-umami/</link>
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		<title>Meaning of Osechi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[osechi year 2010 / nAok0 In Japanese culture you will see many occasions using puns to be a good omen. Especially on New Year, the most important holiday of all in Japan, uses many puns in a hope for a better and healthy life for their family members by eating special meal called osechi. Osechi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2013/01/meaning-of-osechi/</link>
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		<title>Use of kombu seaweed in world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usage of kombu seaweed has been widen but there are not many countries using kombu in daily diet and savory. Kombu probably will continue to be used as a healthy ingredient and gain presence in the use. With in that use, there will be better methods, recipes will be introduced and to make more people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2012/12/use-of-kombu-seaweed-in-world/</link>
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		<title>Seaweeds in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few weeks earlier, there was the news that first license to sell, and harvest seaweeds were given to a man from government in the United Kingdom. They hold many coastal areas and able to harvest and more than 650 seaweeds exists in their economic water. However, not many types of seaweed were eaten in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurakonusa.com/blog/2012/12/seaweeds-in-the-uk/</link>
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