おうちごはん！(Ouchigohan) 

New Year’s Osechi-Ryōri

Japanese Home Cooking with Table for Two

in Boston, Georgia, Houston, Philadelphia,

Washington DC, Colorado, Indiana, and North Carolina

Sunday, January 12, 2025

5:00 - 6:30 PM EST

$10 JAS/JS Members | $15 General Admission

Hosted online via Zoom

(Ingredient list will be provided a few days before the event)

About the Event:

Celebrate Japanese New Year, or “Oshogatsu” with the Japan America Society of Washington DC and make some of the special foods, known as “Osechi-ryori“.

Beautiful and full of symbolism for luck and fortune in the coming new year, families gather for a wonderful homemade feast.  For our special Japanese New Year Ouchigohan session, we will make 3 items to enjoy: Yawata maki: rolled beef with carrots and string beans simmered in Teriyaki Sauce, refreshing Namasu salad with shredded daikon and carrots, and a delicious apple Kinton made with sweet potato and apple mash, twisted into a “pouch of gold.”

We will also play a popular New Year’s game, “Fukuwarai” – The Lucky Laugh game.

We look forward to welcoming in the New Year with you and our Ouchigohan Family! Only one registration needed per household. 

JSB members visit the member only portal for the discount code.

About the Instructor: 

Debra Samuels leads the program content and curriculum development of TABLE FOR TWO USA’s Japanese inspired food education program, “Wa- Shokuiku: Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!”.

She was a food writer and contributor to the Food Section of The Boston Globe and has authored two cookbooks: “My Japanese Table,” and “The Korean Table.” She curated the exhibit, “Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture,” at the Boston Architectural College (2015) and co-curated “Objects of Use and Beauty: Design and Craft in Japanese Culinary Tools,” at the Fuller Craft Museum (2018). Debra also worked as a program coordinator and an exhibition developer at the Japanese department of the Boston Children's Museum (1992-2000).

Debra has lived in Japan, all together, for 12 years and specializes in Japanese cuisine. She travels around the country and abroad teaching hands on workshops on obento, the Japanese lunchbox. During Covid 19 she is teaching live online cooking programs to youth and adults.

The Japan Society of Boston is pleased to work with our friends at The Japan-America Society of Houston, The Japan-America Society of Georgia, The Japan-America Society of Washington DC, The Japan-America Society of Greater Philadelphia, The Japan America Society of Colorado, Japan-American Society of Indiana, and The Japan-America Society of North Carolina in the family-friendly cooking series おうちごはん！Ouchigohan! - Japanese Home Cooking with TABLE FOR TWO USA, part of the innovative food education program, Wa-Shokuiku: Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!, where participants make simple, healthy, homestyle Japanese food to enjoy with friends and family. 

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