Daily Archives: May 20, 2008

Cooking at Kotoen

I like cooking. Scratch that. I love cooking. I`m a self-taught cook, graduating from `jar of spaghetti sauce + pasta + grated cheese = voila Italian food!` to my mother asking me for my recipes and passing them off as her own. Admittedly, I`m very fond of one-pot/bowl cooking, where you mix everything together [...]

An “Insulting” One-Point

A student returns from her vacation and gives me a tasty bottle of Nihonshu from wherever she went…I say, “oh you shouldn’t have…” And she is insulted because she thinks she really shouldn’t have done that and  doesn’t understand that I am actually saying “I really appreciate your thoughtfulness.”  That took a bit of explaining [...]