The Japanese Kitchen: Home Cooking Japanese Style
Taught by Ms. Rie Akazawa
8 weekly sessions, Tuesday afternoons, 1:00-3:30; beginning March 2, 2009
This course will meet at the Boston Center
for Adult Education
122 Arlington St., Boston MA
In this 8-week hands-on program participants will gain a solid grounding in the fundamental
principles of Japanese cuisine through both lecture-demonstration and hands-on
cooking in the modern professionally equipped teaching kitchen at the Boston
Center for Adult Education. In each 2.5 hour class, you will be introduced to recipes of daily staple dishes, tips on purchasing and using Asian ingredients, and alternative ingredients to substitute for hard-to-find items.
1 class will be a field trip to an Asian market to familiarize participants with purchasing ingredients essential to a Japanese kitchen.
Special attention will be devoted to Japanese family recipes
and the adaptation of easily available local ingredients to Japanese
menus. Japanese techniques of
simmering, deep-frying, steaming, and grilling will be taught in the preparation
of full, balanced Japanese meals, and attention will be given to the
characteristic design approaches to Japanese-style food presentation.
1 class will be devoted to the preparation of sushi, other meals may include, Gyoza, Okonomiyaki, Oyako-don, Tonkatsu, Japanese Curry (menu subject to change based on availability)
Rie Akazawa is
a licensed chef and caterer, born and raised in Japan and now living in
Cambridge, MA. She is the founder
of Apron Time, a catering company based in Boston that specializes in
Japanese-inspired menus as well as a full range of contemporary, international
cuisine. She has professional
degrees in classical French cuisine and in pastry-making from the Cambridge
School of Culinary Arts.
8 weekly sessions, Tuesday afternoons, 1:00-3:30, beginning March 2, 2010
This course will meet at the Boston Center for Adult Education (122 Arlington St., Boston)
Tuition:
$325 (Japan Society members), $375 (non-members). This class will be
limited to 14 students (minimum enrollment: 10 students)
*Classes with fewer that 10 people registered may be canceled with tuition refunded).
*Unforeseen circumstances occasionally require a change of instructor and/or schedule.
*Tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason after the first class