Itadakimasu and Gochisosama

My first lesson in the art of cooking Japanese and learning about the culture: offer a prayer of thanksgiving and delight. If you are joining me for first time or since I have started this blog 11 years ago, you know our family prays over a country’s contributions to our food table. Just two words…

Just because it “can” happen doesn’t mean it will

I heard this somewhere in the context of bad things happening. That phrase has kept my mind from taking me down dark paths. I once had a therapist who asked me “if it does happen, then what?”“What’s the worst thing that can happen?” She asked me to play that all the way out, and when…

Vintage Cooking

How do I begin again? It seems like forever since I wrote the last post on Syrian food. How does one start revisiting the art of cooking? Well here goes…I start with what I know which is to pick up a cookbook and read writings on cooking. I went to the room where my collection…