This picture was taken in a friends garden. I met this friend while I was living in Japan. She was a well known high school English teacher who loved to cook. This woman gave up her job as being a teacher to pursue her dream of teaching people how to cook. She invited me to her house to pick vegetables and bamboo, then she taught me how to cook one of Miyazaki’s famous dishes, chicken namban (fried chicken with a tartar like sauce). This picture is of me its the bamboo shoot I picked from her garden. Tens of mosquito bites later, i’d say it was a great experience.

xoxo,e