Update: Another Source of Mirin for Cooking March 8, 2012, 10:34 am In my Food Stuff column on Feb. 28, I wrote about mirin, the Japanese cooking wine, explaining how difficult it was to find any made without corn syrup and additives. I mentioned Takara brand, naturally sweet and additive free, which is sold at Sakaya, a sake store in the East Village. But I have since received e-mails about a mirin made and sold by Eden Foods of Clinton, Mich., that is sold in health food stores. Indeed, I easily found a bottle in a health food store, a source for mirin that I had not explored, having searched in Japanese and Asian stores. Eden's mirin is made from organic Lundberg Family brown rice, a special rice mold called koji (aspergillus oryzae), which helps convert the starch in rice to sugar, plus water and sea salt. It is medium-sweet, with a pleasant hint of bitterness. The alcohol content is 10 percent, a detail that is omitted from the label. It's a worthwhile product, though with a less complex flavor than Takara. Eden Foods Mirin is $8.60 for 10.5 ounces from www.edenfoods.com. At the health food store it was $12.75, though readers say they have paid around $10 for it.