In the days before refrigeration and the worldwide shipping of fresh produce, foods were preserved in traditional methods, and a well-known example is kiriboshi (cut and dried) daikon. Sometimes ...

Step 1 Peel the skin off the daikon and cut it into cubes as shown ... and salt into a large pot and bring to a soft boil.

They drop by their friend Hiroshi's shop for some malted rice, a traditional fermented essential, then visit their other pal Chieko for some homemade cold-dried daikon radish. Pairing the two ...