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Why Japanese Food Packaging Must Match the Product Inside
Japan's Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, passed in 1962, bars companies from exaggerating how a product looks on packaging. The Consumer Affairs Agency enforces the law, and violations bring fines, corrective orders, and administrative surcharges reaching 3 percent of the sales generated by the misleading claim. A shrimp printed on a noodle cup must resemble the shrimp inside. A slice of cheese on a wrapper must match the size of the cheese a

Maria Salinas
Jul 233 min read


Anthony Bourdain Knew Mexican Food Was Never Just Food
What Bourdain Knew That America Didn't Anthony Bourdain ate everything. Sea urchin in Japan. Warthog rectum in Namibia. A raw seal eyeball in the Canadian Arctic. The man had no borders when it came to food, which is precisely what made his reverence for Mexican cuisine so pointed. Because Bourdain was not easy to impress. His first professional encounter with Mexico happened while filming A Cook's Tour for the Food Network, when he traveled to Puebla with a Mexican cook from

Maria Salinas
Jun 94 min read
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