Portable lunches can be practical, delicious, and visually appealing, according to a new book by Crystal Watanabe and Maki Ogawa: Yum-Yum Bento Box: Fresh Recipes for Adorable Lunches. Over the course ...

Bento means lunch or lunch box. But for most Japanese home cooks, the act of preparing a bento box can mean much more than that. A bento box represents a mother’s love for her family. For centuries, ...

Bento means lunch or lunch box. But for most Japanese home cooks, the act of preparing a bento box can mean much more than that. A bento box represents a mother’s love for her family. For centuries, ...

Instead of brown lunch bags, Japanese kids typically bring bento boxes to school for lunch. And sometimes these bento boxes can be an outlet for mothers to unleash their creativity. You’ll can see how ...

Editor’s note: In the Every Bento Tells a Story series, Chikako Tada, editor of Pen & Spoon, a website devoted to food, writes about various aspects of making bento. There is also a helpful video in ...

Meals don’t have to be complicated to be satisfying or delicious—they just need a good helping of award-winning Wisconsin Cheese. Sometimes, the right combination of just a few foods is all we need to ...

Most Japanese bento include rice, often pressed into easy-to-eat shapes. When that ubiquitous rice is coaxed into bite-sized cylinders, the meals become known as makunouchi (literally translated as ...

A bento is a lunchbox, usually one person serving, home cooked or sold to takeaway in some japanese restaurants/shops. Out there in Japan, it is very common that children and adults bring their bento ...

I'm sure you're a very good cook. But if you want to feel bad about yourself, spend five minutes cruising the Internet for photos of bento boxes. They won't be hard to find. Originally just a ...