Mutual Trading Company is proud to present for the first time a new and exciting line of products, MTC PREMIUM. These rare, artisanal products from Japan have never before been available to chefs in North America. For those creative chefs who are constantly in search of high quality Japanese food products and who are always looking for exciting new ingredients for use in Japanese and Western cuisine these unique products are a real find. In top quality restaurant kitchens, whatever the cuisine, these wonderful newly available products from the MTC PREMIUM product line will find their place.

The premium products presented here have been selected for their unique characteristics that make them applicable to many of the world's fine cuisines. New York Mutual Trading Company and Hiroko Shimbo, a recognized author and authority on Japanese cuisine, have sought out the highest quality products to establish this new, first-of-its-kind line. Many of these rare products are made by traditional, lengthy artisan methods and frequently use organic materials.

The first fifteen premium products include several important categories of Japanese ingredients - salt (3 varieties), miso (3 varieties), shoyu (soy sauce), mirin (sweet rice wine for cooking), and vinegar (2 varieties). There are four very distinctive tea products - blended Japanese teas (3 varieties), special matcha green tea powder for baking. Two very special products are ultra-pure arrowroot starch and genuine Japanese-produced wagyu (Japanese beef).

Please enjoy discovering these exciting, rare, artisanal products. We are sure that you will want to sample them and try them in your kitchen to create innovative taste, texture, color, aroma in your preparations.

Please visit The Culinary Room by Hiroko Shimbo on this website and see tips on using these attractive products in traditional Japanese preparations and ideas for adopting them to your own culinary repertoire.

Welcome to MTC PREMIUM!

		updated on 1/16/2008
new! GOKUJO HANA KATSUO	:	superior quality bonito flakes
new! AWASE DASHI	:	blend of kelp, bonito flakes and sardines for making broth
new! ORITAEN CHIRAN-CHA	:	variety of premium Japanese teas, grown without pesticides
CHO-TEION REITO MAGURO	:	flash-frozen, premium quality tuna
SOY SALT	:	premium shoyu in unique flake form
SHIRO SHOYU	:	premium wheat soy sauce
KOKUTO	:	artisan brown sugar from Okinawa
TAIHAKU GOMA ABURA	:	naturally pressed sesame oil
MA-KOMBU	:	premium kelp
BENÍMOSU	:	purple sweet potato vinegar
HON'KUZU	:	pure arrowroot starch
AKASAKÉ MIRIN	:	sweet red saké mirin
AMABITO NO MOSHIO	:	ancient sea salt
IBURI-JIO	:	smoked sea salt
SUZU SHIO	:	premium Noto sea salt
THE WAGYU	:	real Japanese beef
KISHIBORI SHOYU	:	pure artisan shoyu
SEIKAYO MATCHA (CHAEN NO SAKURA)	:	green tea powder for baking
KIDARU JUKUSEI MUGI MISO	:	barrel fermented red barley miso
MUTENKA MUGI MISO	:	additive-free, live white barley miso

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