In the classroom this week we read Katie Yamasaki’s book Fish for Jimmy, which was based on her family’s experiences during the incarceration of people of Japanese descent during World War II. Students shared strong feelings about this chapter in California history and we had an interesting discussion about reparations and whether what the American government did in the aftermath of what happened was enough. One thing we learned was that Japanese incarceration fundamentally altered Japantown in San Francisco: the neighborhood today remains significantly smaller than it was before the forced removal of its citizens in the 1940s.
In the kitchen, we learned to make a sushi hand roll, temaki. We filled the temaki with a number of colorful, vegan ingredients, like oshinko (pickled daikon), pea shoots, and Hodo braised tofu. We love to see all the smiling faces of chefs who love sushi!
