I am a Japanese food writer and cookery teacher who promotes Japanese cuisine. In the 1970s, when I first arrived in Britain as a schoolgirl, Japanese food was hard to find, to say the least. Today, to see it sold and eaten everywhere is beyond my wildest dreams. Of my many kitchen gadgets and utensils — a collection that keeps on growing, much to my husband’s bemusement — chopsticks are my ultimate essential. I cook and eat with them and carry a pair in my handbag, even when I go to non-Japanese restaurants.
我是日式料理專欄作家和烹飪老師,我推廣日料。20世紀70年代,我作爲中學女生剛到英國時,那時日料還很少見(客氣地說)。今天,看到日本料理到處可以買到和喫到,是當年的我無論如何也想不到的。在我衆多的廚房小工具和餐具(收藏量還在不斷成長,這讓我的丈夫很困惑)中,筷子是我的終極必需品。我用它做飯和喫飯,就連我去非日本餐廳時,我的手袋裏也會放著一雙,即使在我上西式餐廳時也是如此。