Description: A collection of recipes from around the world and the stories behind them.
Behind every recipe there's a story.
My grandfather turned 90 last week. He is the middle child of seven children, born to American missionaries in Japan. His father, my great-grandfather, seems to have had an all-encompassing faith that took him and his new wife from Kentucky to Japan, arriving on New Year's Eve, 1919. He was 23; she was 19.
They lived in various locations in the country before having to return to the US in the mid-1930s, but while they worked to convert their Japanese neighbors to their Christian religion, the family developed a deep connection with the country, its people and its culture.