Here, you just can't get good Japanese food; nothing's authentic. I really have to make my own if I want authentic.

I lived in the dorms the first year and really missed cooking.

Some vegetables are really different, but I have learned to live with them. I am amazed at the amount of ethnic vegetables you can get (locally) now.

A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?

Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.

To food people, this is like making the Olympic team,