おうちごはん！(Ouchigohan) 

Summer Matsuri Special

Japanese Home Cooking with Table for Two

with Washington DC, Georgia, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia,

Colorado, North Carolina, and USJETAA

Saturday, July 19, 2025

5:00 - 6:30 PM EDT

$10 JSB/JS/JETAA Members / $15 Non-members

Hosted online via Zoom

(Ingredient list recipe card and Zoom link will be provided a few days before the event)

Join the Japan-America Society of Washington DC for the July edition of the family-friendly online Japanese home cooking class series おうちごはん! OUCHIGOHAN and cook along from your own kitchen!

For July we’re cooking up a “Summer Matsuri Special!”

Japanese summers are known for being steamy (mushiatsui)! But people forget the humidity as soon as they get into their summer yukata and enjoy street food at their local festivals, or matsuri.

Join the July Ouchigohan cooking session as we make these popular matsuri dishes: yakisoba (fried noodles), takoyaki (grilled octopus fritters), and refreshing strawberry kakigori (shaved ice).

JSB members see discount code on the member only portal.

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, The Japan-America Society of North Carolina, and the US Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme Alumni Association (USJETAA) in this special installment of 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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