Welcome to Never Fail, a semi-regular column where we wax poetic about the recipes that never, ever let us down. This week: the soba noodle salad that Healthyish editorial assistant Aliza Abarbanel ...

Reporting from Tokyo and Los Angeles -- At Akila Inouye’s Tsukiji Soba Academy in Tokyo, a specially made wooden cabinet has 108 small cubbyholes, each containing a scroll of thick brown or green ...

So you want to buy soba, those slippery, slurpable noodles you’ve been dreaming of eating in soups for days. You’ve hyped yourself up: You’re wearing your good sweatpants, the ones with the good ...

Soba noodles are made entirely or in part with gluten-free buckwheat flour, which is linked to improved heart health, blood sugars, inflammation and cancer prevention. They’re similar in nutrition to ...

Picture this: It’s hot outside, that particular kind of hot that you seem to find only in late summer in Southern California. The sky is beige, and the air seems so thick you nearly swim through it.

Mariko Kallister’s strength flows from the force. You could see it in action one rainy night last March, her hands deep inside a lacquered wooden bowl in the dining room at the West Loop’s TenGoku ...

Just a decade ago, Sonoko Sakai was burned out. That's when she washed her hands of a career in the film industry to focus on something more restorative: the art of making soba noodles. Even after ...

Maddy Sweitzer-Lammé is a passionate and voraciously hungry home cook and eater. She's been writing about food in all its forms since 2014 and is a big believer that anyone can and should love to cook ...

Head to this small historic village in Fukushima Prefecture to discover an off-the-beaten-path destination where life moves ...

Traditional Japanese cuisine, known as washoku, is now an intangible cultural heritage, according to the United Nations. Tofu, mochi and miso are a few examples, but it's the buckwheat noodle, or soba ...