Nancy Singleton Hachisu: "Japanese Farm Food" | Talks at Google

Native Californian, Nancy Singleton Hachisu, has lived with her Japanese organic farmer husband and three sons in their traditional Japanese farmhouse for the last 25 years. Hachisu has taught home cooking to Japanese housewives for over two decades and is the leader of a local Slow Food convivium. Nancy's first book, Japanese Farm Food, was praised in the New York Times, The LA Times, and the London Times. It was selected by several well-respected U.S. cooking magazines as one of the top cookbooks of 2012 and was featured in Food & Wine's Best of the Best Cookbooks, Vol. 16. The French edition of Japanese Farm Food (Japon, la cuisine à la ferme, Oct 2013) includes a glowing preface by Joël Robuchon. Hachisu is currently working on her second book, Preserving the Japanese Way: age-old techniques for the modern kitchen, to be published by Andrews McMeel early November 2014.
Fuji TV is currently documenting Hachisu's preserving and farm food life in rural Saitama as well as her visits to artisanal producers in more remote areas of Japan. The documentary series, Lost Japan, airs periodically on a Sunday AM news program in Japan. The aim of the documentary segments is to inspire Japanese to cook for themselves (rather than buying processed foods) and to rediscover the traditional Japanese diet that has lost ground in recent years.
You can find the book on Google Books and Google Play: