おうちごはん! Ouchigohan! Japanese Home Cooking – Harusame Salad & Coffee Jelly

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

Join the Japan-America Society of Washington DC and Table for Two for this family-friendly online Japanese home cooking class series おうちごはん (OUCHIGOHAN) and cook along or just watch from your own kitchen!

Summer is approaching and the Japanese know how to eat to beat the heat! Join us as we make a refreshing “Harusame Salad,” Spring Rain Glass Noodle Salad, as well as the uniquely Japanese treat, “Coffee Jelly”. There will also be a bonus recipe: “Cool as a Cucumber!” a great summertime heat buster!

A full list of ingredients, recipes, and instructions will be sent the week of the class.

Members of Japan America Societies/US JETAA can enter their society’s discount code at checkout for member pricing. Advance ticket purchase required. Only one registration per household needed. 

Saturday, June 13, 2026
6:00 PM (ET)
Hosted Online via ZOOM
$10 Members* / $15 Non-Members

Register Here!

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

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The recipe card with ingredient list and Zoom link will be provided via Email a few days before the event. 

About the Instructor:

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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.