AUTHENTIC JAPANESE  COOKING  CLASS  AT  HOME
IN  KAMAKURA
 Class in English with Mariko

I was born to a Japanese cuisine restaurant owner/chef father and grandfather, and a Ukrainian mother.
I grew up eating both traditional Japanese cuisine made by my father and E European cuisine made by my mother who loves cooking.
Because of my family, I naturally took an interest in cooking from an early age, learned cooking from my parents, and mastered every Japanese home cooking at a young age.

Also I studied many cuisines to get to know more about food such as my favorite American food, Italian, French, Eastern, and Chinese.  Get to know about them, that gives me more good influence to what the real Japanese food is.

I learn something new every time I cook that keeps me love to cook and I think that is the most interesting part of cooking and tasting.

I have always tasted complex flavors under such circumstances, I have a deep understanding of various tastes, from sensitive to dynamic, that is my greatest strength.

 

I studied in America for 3 years when I was in my teens, and at the same time, I traveled a lot of countries for tournaments as a tennis player such as Jamaica, France, Canada, so many that  I can't tell them all.

 

During that time, I had many opportunities to home stay and go to local restaurant, and tasted delicious home cooking of each country's customs, cultures, and homes. I still remember those wonderful experiences vividly.  I relive the wonderful times I had with the families and countries.

 

I believe food directly affects health, and that only the right foods that supplement the body can be said to be truly delicious. Hence, I developed a strong interest in nutritional values and eating combinations, and studied them a lot.

 

Before I get marry with my husband, he had fatty liver for 4 and half years suffering him selves and tried many ways to get rid of it but he couldn’t.  Then we started to live together, I learned so much menus for fatty liver patients.  In just half a year later, he completely cured severe fatty liver, and he loses 12 kg in same time by my recipes.
Since he continues to eat lots of healthy good food without dieting every day, that keeps him without strain and his weight keeps for 2 years without having a rebound or relapse.

Cooking is very fun, and the delight of healthy food, the feeling of touching the ingredients and using them to create meals, make me feel that I'm alive because of them. It also makes me realize and face the fact that, everything should be appreciated, and not taken for granted.

I hope you will enjoy the local culture our place where we live, hope you will enjoy the fun and delight of cooking for people, and the background history and current culture of the cooking we Japanese eat at home.