Japanese Home Cooking

 Event Details

TABLE FOR TWO USA is hosting Ouchigohan - Summer Picnic with Sushi Rolls and Veggies with Sesame Dressing on Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 6 PM EST in collaboration with our Japan America Societies family as we present recipes from our forthcoming book, "Japanese Cooking with Kids" (Tuttle Publishing, Fall 2024)! We will make a tray of sushi rolls (norimaki) – Japanese rice, stuffed with delicious fillings and rolled in nori, steamed green vegetables in a tasty sesame dressing, and Japan’s favorite summer thirst quencher – mugicha, healthy roasted barley tea. Perfect for a summer picnic!

Bonus activity: Make your own set of “hashioki” – chopstick rests!

Our own Debra Samuels will lead the class to choose from tuna-mayo, cucumbers, avocado, and imitation crab to fill your rolls. Crush up nutty sesame seeds into a yummy sauce to top veggies and learn how simple it is to make a pitcher of mugicha. Debra Sensei will additionally teach you how to tie a Japanese knot and make a set of chopstick rests. 2 class participants will win a copy of “Japanese Cooking with Kids.” The winners will be selected randomly and notified!

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**Please be sure to click the "Submit Form" button at the bottom of this page to register for the event.**

Members of Japan America Societies/ Japan Societies, enter your discount code in the “JAS/JS Member” option below to receive member pricing.

JASB: boston
JASC: colorado
JASG: georgia
JASGP: philly
JASH: houston
JASI: indiana
JASNC: carolina
JASWDC: wdc

A list of ingredients will be sent out a few days prior to the event to registrants.

 About Japanese Cooking with Kids

Our new cookbook is the perfect way for you and your kids to learn about Japanese cooking while having fun in the kitchen — and getting them to eat more healthy meals. Some of these dishes may even become their new favorites!

Each chapter in this book contains a fun, hands-on activity like counting to 10 in Japanese while washing your hands, growing your own green onions or making your own chopstick rests! In addition to preparing delicious Japanese recipes, kids will learn the basic principles of Japanese cuisine — eating foods that are in season, and only eating until you feel 80% full—to help you live a healthier life.

Japanese Cooking with Kids will give you and your family a whole new perspective on food and eating—the Japanese way!

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!” (Wa-Sho).

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.