Peter Hertzmann is a culinary instructor and author living in San Francisco. He has travelled, cooked and written about many foods and recently returned from Japan where he photographed a lot of stoves. His writings and explorations of the history of Umami in western cooking will open your eyes to how much longer Umami has been a "thing" than you thought.
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