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Seasonal vegetables, hand-labeled spices, and letterpressed recipe cards — arranged like a kaiseki tray, delivered weekly.
No card required · Cancel any Wednesday before 6pm
Build your box,
course by course.
Hover any card to see what's inside. Add what calls to you — your box ships Thursday.
Includes
- Vine tomatoes (600g)
- Crème fraîche
- Basil oil sachet
- Shokupan loaf
- Garlic bulb
- Thyme sprig
Roasted Tomato Soup
With Basil Oil & Shokupan
Vine-ripened tomatoes slow-roasted until caramelized, blended with crème fraîche, finished with cold-pressed basil oil and torn shokupan for dipping.
Includes
- Delicata squash (2)
- White miso paste
- Maple syrup
- Pepitas
- Fresh thyme
- Brown butter
Miso Caramel Delicata
Stuffed Squash · Chef's Feature
A cross-section that reveals layers: miso caramel seeping into the squash cavity, toasted pepitas catching the light, fresh thyme scattered like punctuation.
Includes
- Koshihikari rice (2 cups)
- Purple shiso (10 leaves)
- Umeboshi (4)
- Nori sheets
- Sea salt
- Sesame seeds
Purple Shiso Onigiri
Hand-Formed Rice Kit
Everything to make rice by hand on a Sunday: purple shiso, short-grain Koshihikari, umeboshi, and nori sheets cut to the right width.
Includes
- King oyster mushrooms (250g)
- Kombu (2 sheets)
- Bonito-free dashi powder
- Brown butter
- Scallions
- Yuzu kosho
King Oyster Dashi
Clear Broth Bowl
Ivory king oyster mushrooms seared in brown butter until the edges curl gold. Served in kombu dashi so clear you can read the bowl beneath it.
Soba & Black Sesame
Chilled buckwheat soba in a black sesame dressing that coats every strand. Cucumber ribbons, pickled ginger, and a glass jar of dressing that catches the afternoon light.
What's inside
Includes
- Silken tofu (400g)
- Kombu dashi packet
- Aged tamari
- Micro-shiso
- Sesame oil
- Katsuobushi (optional)
Dashi Egg Tofu
Silken & Slow
Silken tofu steamed in dashi until it trembles. Finished with aged soy, micro-shiso, and a thread of sesame oil that disperses in rings.
Includes
- Rainbow carrots (500g)
- White miso
- Heavy cream
- Caraway seeds
- Calabrian chili oil
- Honey
Roasted Carrot Miso
Charred & Sweet
Whole carrots roasted until they blister and caramelize. Plated over white miso whip with toasted caraway and a drizzle of chili oil.
Every ingredient sourced within 200 miles
Northeast regional farms · certified organic
Not a meal kit.
A quiet practice.
We design around the cook who already knows how to taste — who wants better ingredients, not simpler instructions.
It arrives Tuesday.
Your box ships Monday, packed in recycled kraft with ice packs that melt clean. Every sachet hand-labeled in our studio.
Read the card first.
Each letterpressed recipe card tells you when to start the dashi, how long the miso needs to bloom, which oil goes in cold.
Cook with intention.
Forty-five minutes. One pan, one pot, one quiet ritual before the week asks anything of you.
The palate resets.
The season changes.
These dishes appear once, when their ingredients peak. Add them before Thursday.
Miso Caramel Delicata
Stuffed delicata squash with white miso caramel, toasted pepitas, and fresh thyme. The caramel bubbles at the edges for 8 minutes — that's when it's ready.
Black Sesame Soba
Chilled soba in a black sesame dressing with cucumber ribbons and pickled ginger. A glass jar catches the light.
King Oyster & Dashi
Ivory king oyster mushrooms seared in brown butter, in a clear kombu dashi with slivered scallion.
Shiso Onigiri Kit
Purple shiso, short-grain rice, umeboshi, nori sheets. Everything for the ritual of making rice by hand.
Opening the box on Tuesday is the best part of my week. Not the cooking — the unwrapping. The way the shiso sits on top of the kraft paper like it was arranged by a florist.
Naomi Watanabe
Subscriber since Spring 2024 · Brooklyn, NY
We've cooked together every Tuesday for eight months. The recipe cards are the only instructions I've ever followed without skipping ahead.
Priya & Rohan Mehta
Subscribers since Fall 2024 · Chicago, IL
I'm a weeknight vegetarian by necessity and a food snob by choice. Umami is the only subscription that doesn't make me feel like I'm compromising on either.
Thiago Alves
Subscriber since Winter 2025 · San Francisco, CA
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