Nancy Singleton Hachisu
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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And I and I was close to them so I could ask them and they and I asked them, You guys are such good cooks.
Why do you have like
Take out food, because for me
If I had invited people to my house and like had takeout food, I would have just been ashamed beyond belief.
It was just such an anathema, whatever the word is, such a thing that it was against everything, like I could never even give something.
to somebody like I couldn't buy them box cookies or something like that.
Like um it just didn't compute for me.
But it was really
Ingrained in
even by then and and and I think you know, I think when I was um
Writing about home cooking for the Oxford uh uh oh Encyclopedia.
Uh uh Oxford Piction Yeah.
Research Encyclopedia.
Um that it seemed like it's I mean, I can't remember every single thing that I researched and wrote about, but um that it's that that was has been a custom more than the eighties.
Like it's it's uh
It's just a way of it's it's a way of
showing Omotenashi of of treating your guests right, you know, um, showing that you'll
And also, well, frankly, it's probably a lot of work if you're working every day to try to prepare
Food for all those people and and plus how do you proportion how do you portion it out?
And the one thing about those little bentols is they're you know
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