Japanese and Italian Cuisines Meet in Itameshi

If you’ve already grown tired of Korean tacos, Caprese salad waffles and sushi burritos, it’s tempting to think of culinary mash-ups as a clever trend, soon (or so you hope) to pass. In fact, though, culinary history is rife with such cross-breedings, most of them the happy, unexpected hybrid of immigration, war and other collisions of culture. Think, for instance, about chicken vindaloo—born of the ...