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First-ever ‘Top Chef’ winner Harold Dieterle opens a Sicilian restaurant in NYC

A decade after he shuttered his three West Village dining rooms—Perilla, Kin Shop and The Marrow—and took a temporary leave from the New York food scene, Harold Dieterle is back with a brand-new restaurant concept: a Southern Italian stunner called Il Totano,…

Japan’s first-ever Yakult cafe serves a rare probiotic ice cream in the shadow of a famous castle

Ever since it was first introduced to the market in 1935, Yakult has been taming the intestinal tracts of the nation and the wider world with its Shirota strain of lactic acid bacteria, named after its founder, Dr Minoru Shirota (1899-1982). In…