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Japanese mochi is made in Somerville

By Rachel Ellner

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  June 06, 2012

It was during the stormiest winter in 20 years that Erino Tezuka Wade made her first batch of mochi, the delicate, lightly sweetened Japanese confection made with sticky rice. She was a new arrival to Somerville after more than a dozen years in San Francisco. Wade longed for kagami mochi served at New Year’s in Japan. Today, the Japan-born graphic and furniture designer is the proprietor of Mochi Kitchen, which she operates from her own kitchen.

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