Restaurant Report

I went to TOM BOY with Meiko. This restaurant is Indian cuisine, especially curry and nan.
This restaurant is near Shibuya station and 2nd basement of TOHO CINEMAS. This restaurant is opened from 11 o'clock to 24 o'clock and don't have holiday. The atmosphere is very ethnic.
The clerks greeted us in a pleasing manner and they came to us in order to serve water within 3 minutes when we sat on our seats. And after a few minutes, they came again and litened our order very kindly. This restaurant has several kinds of lunch menu. Suprisingly, if students show their student card, the price of lunch down 100 yen. This is very attractive point for us.
We ate curry and nan. These taste was very good but a little bit spicy for us. In lunch time, we can ask for more nans for free. This point is also attractive.

2nd Harvest Japan's Charles Mcjilton

I didn't know this fact that each day in Tokyo 6000 tons of food are thrown away and I was very surprised to read this part. Charles McJilton knew that there must be a better way to reduce waste and get food to those who need it. So he started NGO in Japan and they have redistributed over 8000 tons of food. In addition, since 2011, they have also provided food and disaster relief supplies to the Tohoku religion.
He first came to Japan in 1984 and he was the CEO of 2nd Harvest Japan since 2002. He is also an adjunct professor at Sophia University teaching NGO management and issues related to the nonprofit sector. He worked at several Asian countries and worked with food problem.
I read this pages, the food problem was more severe than what I thought. So I'm very looking forward to listening to his story tomorrow.

The Party Food

This video showed the kinds of party foods that children like and how to cook them. The reason why I chose this video was that I like party and party foods because party makes people happy and feel enjoy. This video focused on children's birthday party, so introduce the way of cooking the foods liked by children. For example, sandwiches, popcorn, or something.
I watched this video, I wanted to cook these snacks. I thought that if I cook these snacks with a lot of my friends, I'm sure to enjoy cooking them. Then Christmas day  will come soon. So I want to cook these kinds of things with my friends on Chistmas day. 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U0W4Wg6DI0

The special lecture on November 22th

On November 22th, I went to the different class room as usual and listened to the songs sung by Steve Gardner. I really enjoyed listening to his music because I don't listen foreign music like his song. The Chicken song was so interestied for me. I was very impressed by almost all of his songs.
Then, after listening his song, we moved to another class room and talked about him and food culture. The most interedted story for me was Coca Cola story. He told us a lot of things that I didn't know. So it was the good opportunity to learn cultural music and food culture.

Reading book

This chapter said that Italians were celebrated for their ices,and,in turn,they celebrated ices. In addition, poets and novelists wrote paeans to ices. And this chapter has a few Italian words. It is very interesting for me.
The most interesting part in this chapter was that vanilla was not as ubiquitous a flavor as it is now. It came to Europe,originally from Mexico in the sixteenth century.
When I read this book, I always want to eat ice creams and my interests became bigger. So I read more pages soon.

Weight Loss Tips- Oatmeal

The woman said that she and her family members eat oatmeal every morning as a breakfast.
If you want to make it in the morning, it takes 30 minutes to cook this in order to adjust your health easier. So she does every night before going to bed.
She adds cinnamon because she likes it. So if you want to make it a little bit sweet, you can add some berries as you like. Then you add boiled water in the bowl just cover oatmeal and swish a little.
These kind of process can help you to have healthy meal in the morning.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuAA0dLDFjM

Of Sugar and Snow Chapter2

During seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France set the style in upper-class European dining and in the making of ices and ice creams. The first book completely dedicated to ice cream was written by Frenchman, Monsieur Emy, and published in Paris in 1768. French cookbooks were being translated and distributed in England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy.
Francois Massialot was one of the most influential French chefs of the time. He was born in 1660 and cooked for many of France's nobles. He had to contend with the realities of ice cream making. Nearly every ingredients that was needed presented a problem of one kind or another. The ice business was not yet widly established, so obtaining and storing ice was still expensive, in addition, salt was costly. Moreover, in an era, there was no refrigerator, so milk and cream often curdled and eggs weren't always fresh.
I was very surprised that the first book was written in France. I thought the first book was written in Italy, because Italy is famous for gelato. And now, it is very natural that there is refrigerator in each house, but in older days, that was not natural. However people living in that era tried to make ice creams. I was very surprised  that point.

Reading book

I started to read the book I chose. The title of the book is "Of Sugar and Snow~A History of Ice Cream Making~" I read the part of Early Ices and Iced Creams. At first of this parts, it was descrived some patterns of dinner in the seventeenth century. For example, the foods feasted on a dozen or more courses, possibly spit-roasted pork topped with a crown of lemons, fresh strawberries bathed in wine and served atop a mound of snow, lasagna sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, and dishes of fresh fennel,pears, grapes, and artichokes adorned with snow and flowers. Then according to this book, scientists had mastered how to freeze something, the ice cream began to make. Cooks had for many years been making the drinks and creams that were the precursors of ices and ice creams.

Fast Food Revolution: Taco Bell

I watched the video about fastfood restaurant in America, especiallt "Taco Bell".
This shop is  6th largest fastfood chain store in America. This shop's concept is that
everyone can eat easily and the selling points is shape, quality, or something. The first shop was
opened in 1960. This fastfood shop only sell Mexican cuisine.
When I went to California, I went to "TACO BELL" for the first time and ate something Mexican
cusines. At that time, I ate Mexican cuisine for the first time. I thought it was good thing to eat
ethnic cuisine easily. However it is not good thing to eat fastfood every time, because these foods
are high calorie. So sometimes using is better.

URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_oaz7ZBbI

Book about food

It was too difficult for me to choose the book written about food.
Last week, I chose the book about the women's position in agriculture.
However my teacher said that this book is too difficult. So I decided to choose a book again.
I went to library and there are so many books. So I can't find the book suitable for my English
level. Next, I tried to find the book on the Internet cite, Amazon. I don't know the book is
suitable for my English level, but I found the interesteing book written about the history of ice cream.
I decided this book late, so I haven't have this book yet. But I want to read this book soon.

Food Aphorisms

I'd like to introduce food aphorisms which I agree with and disagree with.

"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and Food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.-Joss Whedon
I agree with this, because I sympathized this thought. Eating food is important to live a healthy life. And I  can't go a week eithout having food. To be alive, the most imoirtant thing is to eat something.

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star."-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
I disagree with this, because of course it is important for human race to discover new dish, however I think that it is more important for us to discover a star. It is because if ancient people didn't discover stars, we might not live on earth now.

Reflections on the picnic

   On the October 4th, we went to the Yoyogi Park to go on a picnic. It was a little bit cold day to go on a picnic. We gathered in front of the main gate, and walked to Yoyogi Park. On the way to the park, we were talking with each other. I hadn't never talk with most of this class members, so I thought that day was a good opportunity to talk with this class members.
   By the way, this class is the class learning "food and culture". I'm very interested in this field of studying. And I like cooking. So I wanted to cook something complicated dishes, however, now I live in Tokyo by myself so I couldn't prepare enough ingredients to do so. So I made some riceballs. The dishes cooked by my classmates were very delicious. I wanted to know how to cook these dishes and cook by myself someday.

　For me, this picnic had very important meaning, because I became friends with class members and the opportunity to exercise and think about healthy foods.