About this episode
Meet Nancy Singleton Hachisu, a cookbook author living on a rural farm in Saitama. She sits down to talk to us about coming to Japan, discovering the beautiful simplicty of Japanese farm food, and writing her cookbooks on Japanese home cooking.
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Meet Nancy
5:32 Coming to Japan
11:09 Impressions of the food
17:12 Moving to a farm
23:05 Homeschooling and edible schoolyard
32:24 Writing a cookbook
38:54 What you should know about Japanese food
43:11 How to incorporate Japanese ingredients
51:03 Publishing a book in Japan
1:07:04 Current projects
1:16:27 Where to start with Japanese cooking
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