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The Pastry Chef Adding to Japan’s 400+ Flavors of Kit Kat
2020 · 4 min · English
Yasumasa Takagi, a classically trained pastry chef, walks through his Tokyo kitchen where he has invented more than 50 of Japan's 400-plus Kit Kat flavors, from wasabi to purple sweet potato. Nestle's local marketing team credits him with keeping the candy bar a national obsession decades after it started as a foreign import.
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