I have tried to place LINKS that will transport readers directly to the article or review I would like them to see. However, depending upon the browser used, and the settings on the computer viewing these URL, encryption may detour readers to login registration, or a section index, at the site in question.

Masako Fukui of ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio interviewed me earlier this year about the aesthetics of Japanese food. That interview will air on Radio National on May 19th, 2010 at 3 p.m. local Sydney time. It will be available for streaming from the ABC website and for download a short while after the broadcast.

Shane Sakata, an expat living and writing about Japan's great travel destinations, history & culture, recently attended A Taste of Culture's "In a Pickle" workshop and wrote of her experience at her website: NIHON SUN

Shane also wrote about pickling the washoku way at the Washoku Warriors site (see below for details of that project)

Earlier this year I was contacted by Rachael Hutchings, the leader of a group cooking project dubbed WASHOKU WARRIORS

She and a group of readers of her blog will be cooking their way through WASHOKU: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen and posting results with photos... and queries and opinions. I, in turn, will be speaking with Rachael every month or so to provide additional information/instruction. If there are others interested in joining her project and joining the challenges, please contact her directly: (rachael (at) lafujimama (dot) com).

To read the feature article by Wanda Adams of The Honolulu Advertiser on July 19, 2006: click here.

To read Mealtime Harmony by Katherine Nichols of the Honolulu Star Bulletin on September 6, 2006: click here.

To access Beth Hughes' Special to The Chronicle that appeared on Sunday, January 22, 2006: click here.

These next links are to blogs written by readers who (unbeknowst to me) have been cooking from WASHOKU. As a writer trying to both inform and entertain, and as a teacher wanting to encourage everyone to explore the pleasures of harmony at table, the very existence of such web log entries is thrilling!

Here is what Jennifer Maiser wrote this about a Washoku-style New Year: Click here.

And… someone who "cooks for Margy" wrote this about making Japanese gyoza from WASHOKU: Click here.

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LINKS to ARTICLES by Elizabeth Andoh…

To access many of the pieces written for the New York Times Travel Section Click here.

LINKS to ARTICLES about, and INTERVIEWS with, Elizabeth Andoh…

February 4, 2006: Washoku
Japanese culinary scholar Elizabeth Andoh talks washoku, the philosophical and spiritual heart of traditional Japanese home cooking. It's a concept of possibilities and transformations and a side of Japanese food few outsiders know. Elizabeth leaves us her recipe for Fried Eggplant with Crushed Green Soybeans from her book Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen.

To listen to the podcast of this segment with Lynne Rossetto Kasper of NPR's The Splendid Table, Click here. The segment with Elizabeth is about 16 minutes into the hour-long show, and lasts about 8 minutes.

To listen to the September 9, 2005 HANASHI STATION podcast with Kristen McQuillin, Click here.

To listen to Podcast (#22) interview with Gail Jennings of Hawaii Diner, click here

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