An Interview With Yumi Komatsudaira/ By Tuttle Publishing May 26th, 2022
SEAWEED IN A SUITCASE: AN INTERVIEW WITH YUMI KOMATSUDAIRA It's Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and we are sharing books and interviews from some of our amazing AAPI authors here on the blog. Today we haveYumi Komatsudaira, who is a recipe developer, culinary instructor, and the president of K-Seaweed. She is also the author of Japanese Superfoods, which releases this fall! Since it is Asian Pacific Heritage Month, we’d be honored to hear about your own experience and background as a Japanese American. Tell us a little bit of your story. I was born in Tokyo and raised in Saitama prefecture, a suburb of Tokyo. My parents own a small seaweed factory that they started in the 1960’s. They expected they would have...