WE’VE been bubbling up bones for soup since the Stone Age but with the trendsetting opening of the Brodo Broth Company in New York, and the UK patronage of the Hemsley sisters, stock made from bones has never felt more cutting-edge. It would come as no news to your granny or her granny’s granny that meaty stock has restorative properties.
Category: Kinki, Japan
Adult swaddling therapy fad hits Tokyo
Wrapped up from head to toe in a white bag and gently rocking from side to side, five Japanese mothers are hopeful Tokyo’s latest health trend can cure their post-pregnancy aches and pains. According to its exponents, Otonamaki, which translates as “adult wrapping”, was devised by a Kyoto midwife who thought replicating how children are swaddled at birth could help mothers overcome post labor shoulder and hip pain.