She grew up eating different kinds of wagashi made by her grandmother every year as offerings to ancestors during the spring and fall in Kyoto, Japan, where she was born and raised. CITY OF FOOD: ...

A confectioner in Kyoto creates her own recipes for the sweets known as wagashi. By Vivian Morelli KYOTO, Japan — On a recent Saturday morning, Sayoko Sugiyama was busy making some warabi mochi, a ...

Rice flour, sweet beans, sugar, and water. These are the humble materials used to make wagashi—painstakingly crafted, bite-size tea snacks once prized by the Japanese imperial court. Practitioners who ...

Gena Renaud creates Japanese confections called wagashi. Gena Renaud creates Japanese confections called wagashi. She's one of the country's only wagashi experts. The treats have been presented as ...

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