おうちごはん！Summer Picnic with Sushi Rolls and Veggies with Sesame Dressing

Japanese Home Cooking with Table for Two and the Japan America Societies of Washington DC, Boston, Greater Philadelphia, Colorado, Georgia, Houston, North Carolina, and Indiana

Join us for the June edition of the family-friendly online Japanese home cooking class series おうちごはん！Ouchigohan! – Japanese Home Cooking and cook along or just watch from your own kitchen! On the menu this month is a Japanese Summer Picnic with Sushi Rolls and Veggies with Sesame Dressing!

In this family-friendly session, learn how to make a tray of sushi rolls (norimaki) – Japanese rice, stuffed with delicious fillings and rolled in nori, steamed green vegetables in a tasty sesame dressing, and Japan’s favorite summer thirst quencher – mugicha, healthy roasted barley tea. Perfect for a summer picnic!

Bonus activity: Make your own set of “hashioki” – chopstick rests!

Table for Two’s Debra Samuels will lead the class to choose from tuna-mayo, cucumbers, avocado, and imitation crab to fill your rolls. Crush up nutty sesame seeds into a yummy sauce to top veggies and learn how simple it is to make a pitcher of mugicha. Debra Sensei will additionally teach you how to tie a Japanese knot and make a set of chopstick rests. 2 class participants will win a copy of “Japanese Cooking with Kids.” The winners will be selected randomly and notified!

Saturday, June 29th
6 PM EST
Hosted Online via ZOOM
$10 Members* / $15 Non-Members

Register Here!

*JASWDC members can use code “wdc” to save $5

Meet our Instructor: Debra Samuels

Debra SAMUELS leads the program content and curriculum development of TABLE FOR TWO USA‘s Japanese-inspired food education program, “Wa- Shokuiku -Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!”

She was a food writer and contributor to the Food Section of The Boston Globe and has authored two cookbooks: “My Japanese Table,” and “The Korean Table.” She curated the exhibit “Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture” at the Boston Architectural College (2015) and co-curated “Objects of Use and Beauty: Design and Craft in Japanese Culinary Tools” at the Fuller Craft Museum (2018). Debra also worked as a program coordinator and an exhibition developer at the Japanese department of the Boston Children’s Museum (1992-2000).

Debra has lived in Japan, all together, for 12 years and specializes in Japanese cuisine. She travels around the country and abroad, teaching hands-on workshops on Obento, the Japanese lunchbox. During Covid-19, she taught live online cooking programs to youth and adults.