The Japan Times · LIFE

Can a single clay pot really elevate everything you cook?

· By Simon Daly
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Hidaka, Hokkaido – To many Japanese gourmands, donabe (clay pots) represent food made with care, most often to be shared. Over and above aesthetics, they are widely used by both home cooks and professionals for their efficiency, retaining heat and radiating it into food more evenly than metal equivalents.

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