In the Japanese coastal city of Takamatsu, it's all about udon noodles. Some 800 udon restaurants serve the 400,000 city residents. Every day, a maximum of 100,000 portions of udon noodles are ...

In the early 2010s, the American chef Ivan Orkin left Japan. He moved to a house in Westchester in upstate New York, an hour’s drive from his childhood home on Long Island, opening an outpost of ...