Any traveler who visited Japan may have encountered a "traditional" Japanese breakfast at a hotel. It may have a piece of grilled fish, miso soup, rice, onsen tamago, nori, and Japanese pickles. But an everyday breakfast is more like this: A fluffy, thick toast with butter, ham and eggs and a green salad. More

What is a bread-snatching race? Not exactly a festival food, but I'm curious if other cultures have similar games, so I've submitted it to the Culinary Ambassadors series. While I am not a fast runner, I was somehow very good at this race as a kid. Give me food, I run faster. How it works: You run up to a bar that's dangling breads, bite the bread off the string, and finish running while still holding bread in your mouth. More