Hello Okazu family, this is Pattie, ‘the wife’ and first lady of Yuricon and Okazu. Here’s a little-known fact about Erica… she reads as many cookbooks as I do. There is typically a collection of cooking magazines, vintage promotional cooking pamphlets, and random cookbooks on the table where we eat. When I finish one, I […]
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