Cooking and eating

Let's talk about the following 10 topics.

1. Who did the cooking in your family when you were growing up? Do you cook? What is the most favorite in your foods? How did you learn how to cook? Talk about your first cooking experience.
2. Do you or your family have any allergy for foods? How did you know it? Have you recently found any allergy which you didn't know? 
3. What is the best food so far? What do you want to eat just before death? What is the most wired in foods that you have eaten? Do you like spicy food? What kind of spicy foods have you eaten? Which food do you like in the world? Can you cook the other country foods? 
4. How many meals do you eat for a day? What kind of foods do you eat in a typical day? Do you change the type of foods for each meal? Why?
5. Do you have any habits about food and eating? Who do you eat with? Did you learn the manner to eat? Do you think how we should learn the manner of the other country?
6. Have you ever gone to the restaurant in Japan? Is there the surprised manner or systems? Do you know where the restaurant of vegan, vegetarian, lactose free, gluten free, kosher, and halal food is in Japan? 
7. Where do you buy the ingredients for the foods in Japan? Are the ingredients different from those of your country? 
8. Do you think that you are eating more or less healthfully? Compare with your country food and Japanese food?
9. Do the foods that you cook have the same taste and ingredients as the other foods? Compare among the other family, local, and country foods. Talk about the experience when you are surprised with the other foods?
10. Your friend says to you "For your birthday, I want to make your favorite foods. Tell me what they are." What foods will you ask your friend to make? Assuming that the neighbor is your friend, talk about it. If the neighbor doesn't know the foods, explain how to cook it using the some words in boil, steam, bake, roast, broil, fry, saute, and grill.  

Organizer: Hiro & Sayaka

The number of participants was 6 adults and 3 children. Thank you for coming. We got excited over talking about deep fried Oreo and Vegemite. I want to try them.