JASH is pleased to join our friends at The Japan Society of Boston, The Japan-America Society of Georgia, Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, and The Japan-America Society of Washington DC in this 2023 installment of the family-friendly cooking series おうちごはん！Ouchigohan! - Japanese Home Cooking with Table for Two and NAJAS!
Join us as we cook along with Table for Two’s innovative food program, Wa-Shokuiku: Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!, and make simple, healthy, homestyle Japanese food to enjoy with friends and family.
To introduce participants to Japanese food philosophy and preparation techniques, a special filling recipe has been selected. Join us to learn how to make the popular okonomiyaki savory pancake! Okonomi means as you like it and yaki means grill or fry. This pancake is stuffed with heaps of cabbage and vegetables and topped with a savory sauce. Keep it vegetarian or add shrimp, thin slices of pork, or bacon…as you like it! Top with our homemade sauce, a drizzle of mayonnaise and sprinklings of aonori, dried seaweed, and shavings of katsuobushi (bonito flakes). We will also add a light wakame soup for a lighter finish to our meal.
All classes will be taught by Debra Samuels, lead curriculum and recipe developer for Wa-Shokuiku, cookbook author, cooking teacher and 2020 recipient of the John E. Thayer III Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Exchange Between the United States and Japan.
The ingredient list will be provided a few days before the event.
$10 JASH Members / $15 Non-members. JASH members use code "Houston" to register.
About the Instructor:
Debra Samuels leads the program content and curriculum development of TABLE FOR TWO USA’s Japanese inspired food education program, “Wa- Shokuiku -Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!”.
She was a food writer and contributor to the Food Section of The Boston Globe and has authored two cookbooks: “My Japanese Table,” and “The Korean Table.” She curated the exhibit, “Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture,” at the Boston Architectural College (2015) and co-curated “Objects of Use and Beauty: Design and Craft in Japanese Culinary Tools,” at the Fuller Craft Museum (2018). Debra also worked as a program coordinator and an exhibition developer at the Japanese department of the Boston Children's Museum (1992-2000).
Debra has lived in Japan, all together, for 12 years and specializes in Japanese cuisine. She travels around the country and abroad teaching hands on workshops on obento, the Japanese lunchbox. During Covid 19 she is teaching live online cooking programs to youth and adults.
This program is made possible by:
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