Sonoko Sakai is a cookbook author and food writer. In 2010 she fulfilled her dream of learning to make soba by hand. She enrolled in a professional soba-making program in Japan and now gives lessons ...

A Tokyo branch of a budget soba chain removed a sign asking tourists to avoid lunchtime after its headquarters intervened, ...

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After 20 years in the film business, Sonoko Sakai was looking for something simple, meditative and grounding. She found it, in making soba noodles. Now she teaches other people to make noodles. And ...

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