Tender and supple with the ideal chewy texture, these from-scratch buckwheat soba noodles are easy to perfect. Sonoku Sakai is a Japanese American cooking teacher, recipe developer, and food writer.

This recipe for homemade udon noodles shows you how to make thick, chewy Japanese noodles from scratch using just a handful of pantry staples, including wheat flour, water, salt, and potato starch or ...

“Many people say that ramen is about the broth,” writes cookbook author Sonoko Sakai. “As a noodle maker, I say the noodles are just as important.” It tracks, then, that we’d go to an expert like ...