With rice secured, a craving for miso soup surfaced, a comforting thought that was almost certainly a fantasy.
Kenji had speculated that his new home was somewhere between the equator and the Geshisen, a theory based on the surrounding climate and plant life. The pepper and wild rice he’d already harvested seemed to confirm it.
Unfortunately, miso soup required one essential ingredient he couldn’t forage for. Miso itself. And to make miso, he
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