About this episode

Nancy Singleton Hachisu discusses her journey to Japan and her experiences with Japanese home cooking.

Meet Nancy Singleton Hachisu, a cookbook author living on a rural farm in Saitama. She sits down to talk to us about coming to Japan, discovering the beautiful simplicty of Japanese farm food, and writing her cookbooks on Japanese home cooking. -- 0:00 Intro 0:45 Meet Nancy 5:32 Coming to Japan 11:09 Impressions of the food 17:12 Moving to a farm 23:05 Homeschooling and edible schoolyard 32:24 Writing a cookbook 38:54 What you should know about Japanese food 43:11 How to incorporate Japanese ingredients 51:03 Publishing a book in Japan 1:07:04 Current projects 1:16:27 Where to start with Japanese cooking -- Follow Nancy: https://www.nancysingletonhachisu.com/ https://www.instagram.com/nancyhachisu/ https://www.facebook.com/nancy.hachisu Follow us: https://unpacking.jp/ https://www.instagram.com/unpacking_japan https://www.tiktok.com/@unpackingjapan https://www.facebook.com/unpackingjapan https://www.youtube.com/@unpackingjapanshorts https://www.x.com/unpacking_japan https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/unpackingjapan Subscribe for more in-depth discussions about life in Japan! Interested in working at a global e-commerce company in Osaka? Our parent company ZenGroup is…

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