Vegetarian Buddhist Cuisine

 

Hey guys. How's it going?
I went to a crepe shop with some exchange students yesterday.
It was really good and I had lots of fun :)


I'm reading a book about Buddhist vegitalianism.
Today, I will show you a video.

 

 

 

These foods really look meat but actually these are not.
 As she said, these food also smells real meat or fish but they do not use meat and fish.
This is amazing!! Don't you think so?

NeverSeconds

Hey guys :)
How are you doing?

I went to eat lunch with my senior yesterday.
I ate fruits pancake with vanilla icecream　：P
That was the most delicious pancake that I have ever eaten!! It was very soft and fluffy.

so today, I write about amazing food blog, NeverSeconds.
http://neverseconds.blogspot.jp/

Quality:
This blog is written by an elementary school girl. I can't believe that!!
She introduced Japanese Kyuusyoku and Kyuusyoku contest before.
Her blog is really interesting and I think the quality of this blog is good.


Usefulness:
She mostly writes about her lunch and she sometimes introduce foreign food.
Through her blog, we can see many kind of school lunch.
In her blog, she judged her lunch by some rating. That point is really useful for us.


Visual attractiveness:
Her sentences are sometimes so long and hard to read it but she often puts some video and photo on her blog. We can enjoy it.


Accessibility of the language:
She is English speaker so this blog is written in English.
Her English is easy for us to understand. She doesn't use difficult words.


How interesting is it to you personally?:
She introduced school lunch of some area in Japan. It was so interesting for me because each area's school lunch is little bit different from each other. I was also glad that Japanese food culture was introduced on her blog.

• What do you think of Martha Payne and what she accomplished?
  Martha started this blog to improve her school lunch and many people were realized the problem of the school lunch thanks to her blog. Her blog had an effect on many people and the school lunch was improved. I think she is really brave girl and I respect her. 

• What are your memories of your school lunches?
  When I was a elementary school student, I went to three elementary school because my father was a transferee and we moved many times. So I could experience to eat three kinds of school lunch. In one of my school, we were served foreign food every month and we could eat unusual food in Japan. I'm not sure what exactly we ate but I remember we enjoyed it.

• What do you think of the dining facilities at AGU and how do you think they can be improved?
  The school lunch of AGU is often introduced on TV show and magazin. There are a lot of choice and taste is really good so I like AGU's cafeteria. But the cafeteria is always crowded in lunch time and it is very difficult to find empty seats. I think cafeteria should sets a time limit.

Analyzing a food blog

Hello :)
Today,I will introduce a food blog, The Year in Food.

*Quality
She is the finalist of best blog award 2013 and she published her food blog book. She shows a lot of kind of food in her blog and we can also enjoy the photos. I think her blog's quality is really good.

*Usefulness
She is categorizing pages by the kind of cooking and it is easy to navigate the site. In her blog, she sometimes use unique food so we maight not get it in Japan but every her information is very useful.

*Visual attractiveness
She uses alot of colorful and beautiful photo. Althiugh font sizes are little bit small but it is really cute.

*Accessibility of the language
Her English is very easy for everyone to understand. She doesn't use difficult word and her sentence is not so long that we can  read with a light heart.

*How interesting is it to you personally?
I like this blog. I don't often cook at home but this blog makes me feel like cooking. The food which is introduced in this blog looks very healthy and beautiful so I want to try cooking these dishes.

Food Book

Today, I introduce the book which I chose in the class.
 

Religious Vegetarianism from Hesiod to the Dalai Lama

Edited by Kerry S. Walters and Lisa Portmess

Published by State University of New York Press in 2001

This is a book about vegetarianism. In Japan, there are few vegetarian and we are not so familiar with this topic but some of my foreign friends are vegetarian. I want to know why they stopped eating meat and whether this eating habit is good for health or not. In this book, author consider about vegetarianism in terms of religious. It's very interesting!! I think this book makes me deep think about the life of foods.