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  <title><![CDATA[Cedar Vaultline]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Cedar Vaultline makes small-batch granola in Kamakura, Japan. Hokkaido oats, Okinawan kokuto, no refined sugar. Order online, shipped within one business day.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Summer Shiso and Lemon returns for its fourth year]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The seasonal blend is back. Dried red shiso from Aichi, Setouchi lemon zest, and a touch more kokuto than the winter roasts. Available through 30 September while stock lasts. We made 40% more than last year after running out in August 2025.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[We updated the Miso and Pecan label. Here is why]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The shiro miso we use changed producers in May. Marukome in Nagano remains our supplier, but the specific product line shifted to a lower-sodium formulation. The flavour difference is small but real, and the label needed to reflect it accurately.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-18</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Open kitchen morning: 24 May recap]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[We hosted 14 people in the Ofuna kitchen on a Saturday morning in May. Guests watched a full batch of Original Sesame go through the oven, tasted four blends side by side, and asked a lot of good questions about the oat sourcing. The next open morning will be in October.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-03</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why we roast granola at 155°C and not higher]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When Haruki Nishimura first started testing granola recipes in his Kamakura apartment in 2017, he followed the temperature most recipes suggested: 180°C for 20 minutes. The results were edible but uneven. The edges of the tray burned before the centre had coloured. The oat oils smelled sharp rather than nutty. It took four months of Saturday-morning tests to land on 155°C for 28 minutes, and the difference was significant enough that we have not changed it since.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Hokkaido oats make a difference in granola]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most granola producers buy oats from a commodity distributor and do not know which farm they came from. We understand why: oats are oats, the price difference between commodity and single-origin is real, and most customers are not asking. But when you roast at 155°C with no refined sugar and no flavour masking, the quality of the oat itself becomes the loudest thing in the bag.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-20</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kokuto versus refined sugar in granola: what changes]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When Haruki first developed the Original Sesame blend in 2017, he used light brown sugar, the same as most granola recipes. The result was sweet in a way that felt one-dimensional: a sharp hit at the front of the palate, then nothing. A friend who ran a small confectionery in Yokohama suggested trying kokuto, the unrefined black sugar made in Okinawa. The first test batch with kokuto was noticeably different, and the change became permanent.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-01-08</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to store granola through a Japanese summer]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Japan in July and August is not kind to dry foods. The relative humidity in most of the country sits between 70% and 85% for weeks at a time, and granola. Which is essentially a collection of porous, fat-coated oat clusters. Absorbs atmospheric moisture quickly once the bag is open. We get more questions about storage in summer than at any other time of year, so here is what we know from running the kitchen in Kamakura through eight summers.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What to expect from a granola subscription in Japan]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The subscription started in January 2020 as a way to smooth out the unpredictability of single orders. We had noticed that a core group of customers was ordering every three to four weeks anyway, and a subscription made the logistics simpler for both sides. Two and a half years later, about 40% of our orders come through the subscription. Here is an honest account of how it works and who it suits.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-11-12</pubDate>
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