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.

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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

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