By ALBERT STUMM When Sonoko Sakai’s mother snuck a little miso into her lasagna, she wasn’t thinking of the kind of Japanese ...

Japan is famous for sushi, of course, but outside of this delicacy, the country has many delicious dishes to offer, from ...

Cooking the chicken and vegetables in water ... a stock that’s fundamental to Japanese cuisine. Kombu is harvested from underwater forests and processed by cutting and drying the leaves ...

Each dish was adapted to be more, well, Japanese, said Sakai, a Japanese-American cooking instructor who explores this combination of influences in her new book, “Wafu Cooking.” Wafu literally ...