Nobuko Hashimoto, aka “Hashimoto mama”, is a victim of devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and resulting tsunami. In her recently published book, she shares her story about preparing food for over 5000 volunteers in her own kitchen and what impact this had made to her life and volunteers’. She also shares popular tohoku regional recipes that she prepared for the volunteers in this book. The book is written in both Japanese and English.
For those living in Japan, you can order the book from Amazon. Each copy is 1680 yen with free domestic shipping! If you are living outside of Japan, you can order the book from a non-profit volunteer organization It’s Not Just Mud (INJM). For those living in the U.S, you can order the book at Kinokuniya.com.
I’m giving away a copy of Hashimoto’s Tohoku Recipes (「石巻ボランティアハウスの橋本ごはん」) to 3 (three) winners!
The Rules: This giveaway is worldwide, open for everyone. The giveaway will be closed on Wednesday March 20, 2013, 11:59 pm PST. Entries that do not follow the entry requirements will not be considered. Three (3) winners will be randomly selected via random.org and announced at the end of this post and contacted via email the next day.
Full disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by yours truly. Just One Cookbook is not being paid or given any compensation for this giveaway.
To enter, leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite food in your local area. You can enter your answer to this question every day.
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Thank you everyone for participating! I have read all of your responses about your local food you like and it was very fun to learn some new dishes. Thank you for your feedback!
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Now the winners are…
Congratulations to #363 (Elizabeth), #7 (Darlene), and #87 (Melissa)! I’ll be contacting you shortly.
My favourite local is feijoada. A national dish in Brazil.
I already like «Just One Cookbook» on Facebook.
Whoops! Maybe I should read your post more carefully! I see that I can get it on amazon.co.jp
cheers!
Thank you so much for the giveaway.
I live in BC, Canada. Here I love the Spot Prawns 🙂
I subscribe vie email.
Please let us know how to purchase this book. Even if I don’t win one of yours, I would like to get this book and support the efforts of this amazing lady.
Aloha again Nami, I continue to be a subscriber and love your heartwarming stories, learning the Tohoku recipes will be special, the gift of food and nurishment for the suffering victims certainly is humanely admirable of the Hashimotos. Best and mahalo, Jan. Ps lately it has been chilly so created a simple hot pot, konbu dashi with bonito, fish cake tempura (chikuwa and goby ten), bamboo, tofu, baby corn, mizuna and kampyo knots.
Brisket tacos!!!
Where I live ( calgary alberta ) exists a diverse range of cuisines that reflect all the different cultures in Calgary. Last night I had a plate of wicked Kampongee – fried chicken balls in spicy sauce 🙂 I loved your review of the cookbook 🙂 Will be entering the contest through this post and through the bonus options! Thanks!
My favorite local food is spaghetti and meatballs from an authentic Italian mom ‘n pop restaurant in town.
Love the mapo tofu.
My favourite local food here in Singapore is the Hainanese Chicken Rice.
It is steamed chicken over chicken oil immensed oil. Paired with garlic chilli sauce or dark
soya sauce, one may have seconds!
My husband and I are currently living in North Carolina, and although most of the restaurants in the area are awful I really enjoy the Salmon Oscar at a local brewery called the Mash House.
my favorite local food is hot pot from boiling point in ca. its good especially on a cold day!
I came to your site just looking for recipes, and would up staying awhile. ^_^
I am now following you on pinterest and via email as you have too many wonderful recipes that I would be very sad to miss out on.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful story of Nobuko Hashimoto. Her story of generosity during a time of trauma and hardship is inspiring.
I am q subcriber via email.