Hiroko’s Kitchen | Blog

Yuji Haraguchi of True World Foods (www.tsukijiexpress.com) offered me and my assistants, Anna and Jennifer, a tour of his NJ company of his company very early one day last week.  One of the high points of our tour was the -75 degree F freezer where the flash frozen tuna delivered to the company are kept.

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My Mother’s childhood in the 1920s and 1930s in Japan culinary world was surprizingly Western in style. My mother, Tokuko Shimbo, was born in 1927 in Takada City, Niigata Prefecture. Niigata Prefecture is located (more…)