Chris Lehrer

I adore knives. I don't mean I collect weird fantasy knives and swords or something - I outgrew that before I could afford the things, fortunately. But I have become addicted to knives in the kitchen, and I am mesmerized by good information ...

In 1975, Don Maloney, an American expatriate businessman who’d been writing a series of short columns for the English-language Japan Times, published a collection entitled Japan: It’s Not All Raw Fish. In these little ...