A great dashi (stock) is essential, as it is the crucial element in soups, dipping sauces, nimono (simmered dishes) and nabemono (hotpot dishes), and for cooking fish and vegetables.

I pleaded with him and tried to smooth the thing over and told them that I thought he was just fore-saving these things in case it did arise, but the rest of us just don't say anything about a wage-cut, because we're not going to accept one and …

Fundamentalists do not deny that the class struggle, even as this might manifest itself in tepid ‘business unionism’, plays a role in articulating the crisis tendencies of the capitalist economy.

The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.