We actually don't know when the Sano family's original store was opened. There are records dating back over a hundred years. Originally, it was just a souvenir shop until the 1960s when the young Mr. Sano decided he was going to start selling dried shiitake grown in Yamanashi. Sano has become an expert in shiitake, and while farmers in Yamanashi prefecture no longer grow shiitake, Mr. Sano only so
urces from the best farmers locations around Japan, providing premium and rare dried shiitake to his customers. Shin, Mr. Sano's son, is following in his father's footsteps, building expertise in not only shiitake but other traditional Japanese foodstuffs and hopes to broaden the Sano family store into a specialty health food shop. The recipes on InakaKitchen.com are provided by both the Sano family and Matcha Latte Media staff who are venturing into the Japanese web looking for recipes that can be used outside of Japan.
