Thinking of jumping on the bento box lunch trend this school year? Don't be intimidated by awe-inspiring Pinterest images of Pokémon characters carefully crafted out of rice, oranges half-peeled to ...

Recently, bento-style boxes have become the leading style of food containers both for at-home and on-the-go use in North America. Several popular lunch box companies have redesigned their containers ...

The YouTube recommendation algorithm is the devil’s handmaiden, but occasionally Satan comes through. A few days ago, the algorithm introduced me to the channel Imamu Room, a Japanese woman’s weekly ...

After almost two years of Zoom school, it may finally be time to brush up on your bag lunch game with a bento box. To get the kids excited for school again — while also making sure they stay as safe ...

Maybe you’ve seen them in a Studio Ghibli movie, or maybe you’ve seen them in a TikTok tutorial. What is there to learn from bento boxes that are suddenly popping up in Western culture? To put it ...

Growing up outside of Tokyo, Chef Kenji Miyaishi’s mother used to send him off with bento boxes of onigiri rice balls, karaage fried chicken, tamago-yaki egg omelets and vegetables from her garden.