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Umami History: Kyoto Chef Murata Worked to Share Japan’s Scientific Culinary Secret with the World

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By Ritsuko Inokuma / The Yomiuri Shimbun

17:34 JST, April 24, 2026

Yoshihiro Murata, the third-generation chef/owner of the Kyoto ryotei restaurant Kikunoi, is a focus of admiration from the world’s leading chefs. A key figure in securing washoku cuisine’s 2013 designation as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, Murata has dedicated himself to the...

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