HAPPY DONABE LIFE - Mrs. Donabe's Rustic Japanese Kitchen

Welcome to Home of Donabe Cooking! This blog is about healthy Japanese and donabe (Japanese clay pot) cooking. I love my donabe life and I want to share the joy of donabe cooking with many other people. I also write about random food, wine, and travel experiences. Los Angeles | Tokyo

Thursday, July 6, 2017

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Hello, friends. Thank you so much for visiting my blog. You notice all the images, except for the cover images of my previous blog posts,...

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Trip to Japan (May 2013)...Going back to LA

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The short 1 week back home was about to end. As usual, before I left for Narita Airport, Tomoko and I had soba lunch. I had yamakake ...

Friday, June 9, 2017

Back in Japan (May 2017)...Terroir Al Limit wine dinner with Dominik Huber

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On my final evening in this stay, I got to join a special wine dinner with Tomoko. My long time friend and wine mentor, Etsuko (she is n...

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Back in Japan (May 2017)...Wine izakaya night

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In this very short stay back home, I could still manage to get together with some of very good friends in Tokyo. One night, I got to...

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Back in Japan (May 2017)...Unagi Festival!

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Tomoko and I had some errands to run in Urawa, then we bumped into Annual Unagi Festival. Urawa is famous for unagi (eel) and boast...

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Naoko/ About Me

Naoko: Author of DONABE cookbook (Ten Speed Press, Oct 2015). I am from Tokyo, and currently live in Los Angeles. I cook with donabe (Japanese clay pot) every day when I'm home and promote happy donabe lifestyle to people around the world. In 2008, I established a company called, toiro kitchen, an online donabe shop and a US representative of Nagatani-en (iga-mono brand), a producer of authentic Iga-yaki donabe and pottery, founded in 1832 in Iga, Japan. Check out toiro kitchen website: toirokitchen.com) Happy donabe life!

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