Recipes

For now, here are some websites that I’d recommend for Japanese recipes. More to come!

  • Just One Cookbook – Constantly updated and very detailed.
  • Orange Page – Orange Page is a Japanese magazine and this is their website. You can use Google Translate to muddle through if you don’t read Japanese. These are not difficult or complicated recipes.
  • Cookpad – Readers submit their recipes. Some are better than others.
  • Kurashiru – Some innovative recipes here!
  • Lettuce Club – Another Japanese magazine that has a recipe website. Again, you can use Google Translate if you don’t read Japanese. It might just be me, but I think their recipes are particularly easy to follow for beginners.

I’m Sara

I’m the author of a cozy mystery series set on Teramachi Street in Kyoto. In 1976 I participated in a study abroad program called the Associate Program of Kyoto (AKP). It gave me a tantalizing taste of Kyoto, but it wasn’t enough for me. So in 1978, after graduating from university, I returned to Kyoto on my own. One night a man stopped and asked if I was waiting for the bus. I was indeed. He let me know that the last bus had already gone and offered to drive me home. Not wanting to spend money on a taxi, I accepted. As he drove, he asked me if I needed a job. I certainly did. He smiled and said that he owned a restaurant and gave me his card. And that’s how I ended up waitressing at a small restaurant on Teramachi Street much like the one that appears in this series. One of the other waitresses became my best friend in Kyoto. Over forty years later we are still in touch and I named my main character for her.

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