The name "senbei" first appeared shortly after in documents around 737, and the Japanese rice cracker was born. The original recipe used wheat flour instead of rice flour and was typically fried.

Lekh Raj Juneja is not your average rice cracker company CEO. Born in India, he came to Japan to study fermentation science and ended up leading a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. Last year he was ...

My wife, Gloria, makes risotto with Japanese sushi rice with great success, but for this recipe I use Italian short-grain rice ... Serve as is with toothpicks or on top of Ritz crackers.

With no sugar, little seasoning and limited fuel for cooking, Japanese struggled with endless ... reminiscent of “senbei” (rice cracker), with the aroma of fish powder and sesame becoming ...