Nancy Singleton Hachisu lives on a farm in Japan with her family, and is a James Beard Award-nominated author of two cookbooks:
Japanese Farm Food
and
Preserving the Japanese Way
. Her work has appeared in
Food & Wine
,
Saveur
,
The Art of Eating
, and
Lucky Peach
. A native Californian, she has resided in Japan for thirty years, and is widely respected as an authority on Japanese cooking, both in Japan and the United States.