- Oct 6, 2020
- 1 min
OUR JAPANESE COOKING CLASSES IN CANBERRA REGION HAVE RESUMED!
#japanesecooking #cookingclassescanberra #japanesefood We are pleased to announce that our Japanese cooking classes in Canberra area have partially resumed from October 2020, after many months of suspension due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Classes are currently offered as private classes for groups of family and/or friends. Private classes can be held in your own home kitchen OR at our venue in the Woden area. Maximum participant number is 4 persons (less in smaller kitchens) fo
- Sep 7, 2020
- 1 min
Update on our Japanese cooking classes in Canberra
#japanesecooking #cookingclassescanberra #japanesefood We are continually monitoring the COVID-19 situation in Australia to assess whether we can resume our Japanese cooking classes in Canberra region. Although there have officially been no new cases recorded in the Australian Capital Territory for some time, it is clear that the amount of traffic between Canberra and ‘hotspot’ areas of New South Wales (particularly Sydney) means that there is an ever-present risk of COVID-19
- Jul 19, 2020
- 7 min
Festival fervour and warm hospitality in the frozen north: a winter journey in Akita
#japantravel #tohoku #akita #japaneseculture #japanesefestivals #japanesefood #seafood #rice #flourless #potato For a small island nation one-twentieth the size of Australia, it never ceases to amaze me that I still manage to find so many interesting destinations in regional areas of Japan that I hadn’t previously discovered in my three decades of travelling there. More astounding, perhaps, is that regional cultures are so varied depending on where you are in Japan—a result o
- Jul 19, 2020
- 8 min
Eating your way out of the COVID-19 pandemic: clues from the traditional Japanese diet
#japanesefood #healthyeating #coviddiet #coronadiet #seaweed #greentea #fermented #herbalmedicine Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, research into potential prevention and cures for this seemingly intractable disease has become an urgent global priority. Given the ‘abnormal’ behaviour of the COVID-19 virus, it is apparent that conventional medical solutions may have limited capacity to control the disease. So, the question is whether our diet may offer alternatives in
- Jun 28, 2020
- 3 min
Flourless and low-flour baking and cooking, the Japanese way
#japanesefood #japanesesweets #flourless #potato #sweetpotato #adzuki With the shortage of flour in supermarkets since the COVID-19 outbreak, I have been inspired to focus on flourless and low-flour recipes. The traditional Japanese cuisine has provided me with much inspiration, as a food tradition that has relied on a wide range of staple ingredients other than grain-based flour. The mountainous nature and the strongly seasonal climate of the Japanese islands have meant that
- Jun 28, 2020
- 3 min
‘True blue’: a story of an unassuming Australian native plant, Japanese art, kimono and bushtucker
#foraging #bushtucker #sansai #japanesefood #japanblue #ukiyoe The ‘scurvy weed’ or Commelina cyanea, is a trailing native perennial plant commonly found in damp and semi-shaded positions throughout eastern Australia. Also known as the ‘native wandering Jew’ (as opposed to the invasive South American weed Tradescantia fluminensis, to which it is closely related), the unassuming trailing plant was eaten by the early European settlers in Australia to ward off scurvy, hence the
