A good eggplant makes all the difference. Eggplant is a vegetable that took me a while to like. Eggplant tastes bitter if eaten raw, but when cooked, this vegetable takes on a mild, sweet flavor.

His parents were eggplant farmers, and his mother was gentle and always smiling. But one day, when Harada was around 10 years old, she suddenly ordered him to sell damaged eggplants at a housing ...

“Mizu-nasu,” literally “water eggplant,” is also a local variety ... Tradition has it that “farmers would eat fresh mizu-nasu to hydrate themselves during field work.” ...