The onions are used in a recipe for roasted sweet summer corn, whose master stroke is a sauce made from butter and white miso paste.

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Some 750 years ago, a Japanese priest arrived in Yuasa after a trip to China, bringing with him a newfound skill for making miso (soybean paste).

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Ito, whose family ran a miso (bean paste) factory following his father's early death when Ito was 12, has said he wasn't interested in architecture as a youth.

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