Japanese Confectionery


Maya Tsutsumi
  She talked about Dorayaki. It is called also Mikasa-manju. Dorayaki looks like Dora. So it is called the name. In Edo era, one sponge is used it. Since 1914, Dorayaki is used two sponges.
Good point: She talked without looking sentence. And her voice was good.

Natsumi Sakai
  She talked about Fuugamaki. It is one of confectionery in Kumamoto. It is used some beans, peanut, cashew nut or soybeans, and nori. There are some flavor, ume, wasabi and so on.
Good point: Her presentation was detailed.

Yuri Okumura
  She talked about Daifuku. It is used sweeted bean paste and rice cake. Daifuku is filling. So it is called Daifukumochi. In kyoto, there is Mame-daifuku. It is used rice cake containing beans. And Zunda daifuku is used bean paste of young soy beans pods.
Good point: She used eye contact during her speaking.

Mayumi Oki
  She talked anout Shiomi-manju. It is confectionery in Akou city. The city is famous for soil. Shiomi-manju is used much soil. Salty brings out sweetnes. In Edo era, only lord could eat it. Now, only ten companys meke it. And the recipe is never allowed to be taken out of the companys. It is sold at Akou station.
Good point: She talked with jesture and eye contact.

Aiko Koto
  She talked about Senbei. Senbei is Japanese-style cookie. In japan, Senbei is used rice. And it is hard. In China, it is used wheat. And it is sofer than it of Japan. Okonomiyaki in Japan is one of senbei in China. Chinese eat senbei in holiday but Japanede eat it as snack.
Good point: The contents was detailed. And She useed comparison in her presentation.

Mizuho Sakaguchi
  She talked about Musyagaeshi. It is one of famous Kumamoto's confectionery. The name is from stone wall of Kumamoto castle. Musyagaeshi is used fresh butter, pie and beans paste.
Good point: She used pictures. It was easy to understand.

Miho Sagata
  She talked Akumaki. It is one of confectionery in Kyusyu. And it is eaten in Kumamoto, Miyazaki and Kagoshima in Children's day. It is one of preseved food. It is used white or brown ssuger and soy bean flour. The txture is soft.
Good point: Her presentation was detailed. And she used picture.

Yuria Hamada
  I talked about Sakuramochi. It is eaten in the Doll Festival. Sakuramochi is made of pink-colored sweet rice cake and a cherry leaf. There are two kinds. In Kanto and Kansai, the looks of Sakuramochi is different.





 

Nutrition of Food


1.Haruki Kashimori

He talked about iron. Iron is important nutrition. A lack of it in our body cause anemia. So we have to take in iron everyday. And women have to take it more men. Pork and chicken of liver contain mach iron. Pork of liver heve 13.0mg and chicken of liver have 7.0mg. Food contain iron are very important.
Good point : He almost talked without manuscript. And his pronunciation was very good.


2.Hikari Takase

She talked about dietary fiber. It has little calorie. And there are 2 kinds of it. Dietary fiber is good for health and it helps not to be constipation. It is contained in many food. Soybean, brown rice, natto, burdock, sweetpotato, cabbage and so on. There are many recipe on the internet.
Good point : Her presentation was easy to listen. It was detailed presentation.


3.Saki Konomi

She talked about vitamin. It has two kinds, water vitamin and fat solved vitamin. Water vitamin is solved in water. For wxample, vitamin C is water vitamin. Human don't have it in their body so we have to get it every day. VitaminA, B, E and K are fat solved vitamin. We should take them with fat.
Good point : Her presentation was easy to  understand. I learned many things from her.


4.Mayu Sugimoto

She talked about calcium. It is contained in dairy products, small fish, forage plants and so on. It helpes to make new born and tooth. We have to get it more than 800mg a day. Food contain calcium are milk, cheese, capelin, sardine, komatsuna, mulukhiyah and so on. It will be easy to take in by eating with vitamin.
Good point : Her presentation was detailed. And her voice was easy to listen.


6.Miho Ichigi

She talked about iron content. Iron is important nutrition. It prevents us from being anemia. it is contained in Pork, chicken, beaf s' liver, calm in sweeted soy sause, fresh water calm and so on. Prunes have much iron. We can get iron about 1g from 3 prunes.
Good point : Her presentation was sooth and it was easy to listen.


7.Natsuki Tomeno

She talked about carotene. Carotene is impoetant nutrition for us. Because human and other animals can't make it ourself. But plants can do it. The carrot, sweet potato, muskmelon, yolk and dead leaf of color is carotene. It is stored in liver and body fat. And it helpes to make mucous membrance of skin.
Carrot, komatsuna, spinach and pumpkin have much catotene.
Good point : Her presentation was elaborated content. It was very detailed.


8.Ai Kawasaki

She talked about potassium. Potassiun is K. It helpes to discharge too much of sodium,Na. And it gets blood pressure to keep normal condition. It is contained in paesely, spinach, anocado, soy bean, ginkgo nut, taro and so on. Taro has much of potassium.
Good point : Her voice was big and very good. Using picture was good for listener.




Yuria Hamada

I talked about fat. Fat is stored in liver and mascle. There are two kinds of it, fat and oil. fat is from animals and oil is from plants. Fat is important for living. But if we take in it too much, we'll become fatness and sick. 



  

Home Cooking of the world


Natsumi Sakai
  She talked about American cooking. The U.S. has culture mixed many area's culture. For example, pizza is from Italy. But American pizza is different from Italian pizza. And cooking is different depending on each area. In California, people can get many fruits and seafood. And South America, people use meat in their dish. So they often eat fried chicken and have barbecue.
 
  Good point: She gave me good information. And her voice was good.


Shion Kosaka
  She talked about Chinese home cooking. In North area of China, there are few vegetables and little fish. So people eat cooking used pork and noodle. In South China, there are much fish, vegetables and wheat. Tenshin is a chinese ward. the mean of it is light meal. There are many kind of Tenshin. Shion talked about geppei, annin-doufu, baozi, gyoza and so on. Chinjao Rosu, hoicoro, banbanzi is famous for Japanese people.

  Good point: She used many picture. And her presentation was easy to understand.


Miho Sagata
  She talked about Krean home cooking. She introduced japche and jijim. Japche is gelatin food and it is made of  onion, carrot, shitake, sesame oil and so on. It is used starch made from sweet potato. Jijim is famous Korean food. It is made of wheat, meat, vegetables. It is eaten as snack.

  Good point: She used some pictures. I could understand the looks of the cooking well.


Mayu kawabata
  She talked about French home cooking. She introduced many french cooking. We think that French dish is full-scale but general style of their dish is so simple. She talked about pot-au-feu. It means pot on the fire and it is made of beef, carrot, potato. The soup is used spice and salt and people eat it with mustard. There are dishes having name meaning simmer and fill. And Qiche is made of egg, cream, oie, ground meat and asparagus. It is made using by oven.

  Good point: She used many pictures and easy ward. So it was easy to understand.

Ai Kawahara
  She talked about British home cooking. She talked about fish and chips, scotch egg, muffin and so on. Fish and chips is used white-meat and deep fried chips. It is one of fast food and loved by many people. Scotch egg is made of boiled egg and meat and it is eaten as cool dish. Muffin is cut by fork. British people don't use knife.

  Good point: She used pictures of each cooking. And her presentation was easy to listen.


Yui Matsumoto
  She talked about Russian home cooking. She talked about three dishes. First is borscht. Borscht is red soup. It is made of beets, onion, cabbage, carrot and beef. And it is covered with sour cream. Second is beef stroganoff. It is made of sliced beef, mashed potato, little soup. And sour cream is on them. The color of it is cream. Last, She talked about piroshiki. It is a wheat dish containing many ingredient in it. It looks like curry bread in Japan.

  Good point: She parted her presentation each cooking. So it was very easy to listen.


Saori Tanaka
  She talked about Spanish home cooking, tortilla, gaspacho and paella. Tortilla is spanish omlet and made of fried potato, bacon, egg and olive. Gaspacho is cold soup. How to cooking is different depending on each home. This dish is similar to Japanese miso-soup. Paella is very famous cooking in Spain. So there is a Paella Festival. Paella is main of that festival. It is made from rice, chicken, garlic, vegetables, seafood.

  Good point: She used pictures. And her contact is very good.
 

Cake


Mayumi Oki

She talked about tart. It is made of pie, biscuit, whip cream, many kind of fruits and so on. That has long history. The etymology of tart is torta. Torta were sweets in Roma. The roots of this was in Greece and Egypt. It was made of  jam and cream. In Europe, people make tarto with many apples. It looks apple pie but they call it tart of apple. Mayumi introduced a tart that sold at Okayama station. It looked very tasty.
Good point: Sometimes, she made a presentation  without manuscript. And used pictures of tart.


Natsuki Tomeno

She talked about chocolate cake. It has meny kind of recipe. For example, it is made to coat a sponge cake with chocolate and mix dough with cocoa powder or chocolate. Mixing dough with cocoa is basic how to make. The cake contains little chocolate isn't called chocolate cake. Chocolate cake is eaten as daily dessert, birthday cake and christmas cake. It is called Gateau au chocolat too. The name came from French.
Good point: She speaked loud voice. So her presentation was easy to understand.


Mizuho Sakaguchi

She talked about mille-feuille. Mille-feuille is derived from France. Mille means thousand and feuille means leaf. So mille-feuille stands for thousands of leaves in French. The process of making mille-feuille is foldeing pie many times. Pie piled up many layer looks fallen leaves. So it called the name. Mille-feuille has many kind of form. Mill-feuille glace is made of mille-feuille put fondant or chocolate and drawn aroow on it. Expect it, there are mille-feuille provided remined cold .
Good point: She talked while changing different words into easy words. It was eansy to listen.


Yurie Yamashita

She talked about Mont Blanc. The name of it means Mt. Mont Blanc of Alpes. Mont Blanc has some style. In Europe, bace of Mont Blanc is made of sponge and Savoie's style use meringue. Mont Blanc has many kind of tastes. There are tastes of chestnut, sweet potato, pumpkin, chocolate and so on.
Good point. Her presentation was easy to listen. Her speaking volume and speed was good.


Ai Kawahara

She talked about cheese cake. It is made from creamcheese, milk and wheat etc. Cheese cake is baked in oven until cake turn light brown. It has a smooth taste. There are many kind of cheese cake. N.Y.cheese cake is made of creamcheese, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, cornstarch and so on. In Foreign country, baked cheese cake is major. Souffl cheese cake was born in Japan. The materiala of this cake is almost same of baked cheese cake. but souffl cheese cake is used milk instead of cream.
Good point: She used many picture of each cheese cake. So I could get many information.


Shiho Arima

She talked about fondant au chocolat. Fondant means melt. This cake is famous for all over the world. And in Japan it is eat frequently. Fondant au chocolat is made from fresh cream, suger, cocoa, wheat, hot water and so on. It is used chocolate sauce.
Good point: Her presentation was easy to understand. She used easy word.


Miho Ichigi

She talked about the cake without eggs and dairy products. That cake isn't used egg and milk so how to make it is special. It lookes like steamed bun. It is made from sweet potato and soy milk instead of dairy products. Chateraise a cake shop in Osaka makes cake without milk, eggs and wheat. I didn't know cake without dairy products. I want to try it very mach.
Good point: She speaked loud voice and it was detailed.


Juri Kawasaki

She talked about roll cake. It is one of cake well-known in Japan. It is eaten in celebration and special day. Roll cake looks so simple. Merengue is used on it and the merengue is creamy. We can make roll cake using frying pan. I didn't know that. I will try to make it with pan.
Good point: The content of her psedentation was very detailed and sophisticated.


Yuria Hamada
I talked about buche de Noel. Buche means log and Noel means Chiristmas in French. It looks like log in snow and it is eaten at Christmas. It is made of roll cake put cocoa cream and butter on it.
 

Own Prefecture's Food


Natsumi Matsuda
She talked about Nagasaki's food, Chanpon and Castella. Chanpon is originated in Nagasaki. It is well known that many kind of  vegetables are used in it. Castella is very famous food of Nagasaki too. Castella's taste is good so it is popular sweets.
Good point: Natsumi's presentation was easy to understand for me. Her voice was loud.


Maria Iba
She talked about Ushibuka city's food, Bakudan, Akamaki, Kamaboko and Koppamochi. Bakudan is made of boiled egg and steamed fish paste. It looks like bom. Bakudan and Akamai are eaten in celebration. Kamaboko is steamed fish paste. Koppamochi is made from sweet potato and glutinous rice mainly.
Good point: Maria's voice was easy to listen. And she used pictures of food.


Mayumi Oki
She talked about Hyogo's food, Kobe beef and Kobe pudding. They are famous food in Kobe city. They are delisious and expensive. And she intoroduced Mosaic in Harborland. Mosaic is restaurant area and Harborland is large commercial building. There are many restaurants and eating houses in Mosaic.
Good point: Mayumi's presentation was good. It was easy to listen and understand.


Yuri Okumura
She talked about Kumamoto's food, Karashi-renkon and Basashi. Basashi says horse-meat sashimi in English. Basashi and Karashi-renkon are special product in Kumamoto. Karashi-renkon is made of mustard and lotus root. It is originated in Kumamoto and very healthy for us.
Good point: Yuri's presentation was easy to understand. She explained difficult passages.


Ayaka Kondou
She talked about Fukuoka's food, Hakata-ramen. It is used soup of pork belly and bones. It looks white soup. And the noodle is thinner than any other area's ramen. Because thin noodle coutains much soup so it taste is good.
Good point: Ayaka's voice was good to listen.


Momoko Nakashioya
She talked about Fumuoka's food, Nanban ourai, Tourimon and Menbei. They are popular sweets in Fukuoka. Nanban ourai has three kinds of taste, raspberry, blueberry and chestnut. The taste of raspberry is standard and blueberry and chestnut are on sale for a limited season. Tourimon is made of white bean paste. Menbei is Japanede style cookie used mentaiko.
Good point: Momoko's presentation was easy to listen. It was good to show us picture of food.


Hikari Takase
She talked about Miyazaki's food, Chicken-nanban. Chicken-nanban is fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce. It is one of representative food of Miyazaki. Fried chicken is flooded in sweetened vinegar thoroughly. And tartar sauce is on it. It is very popular food in Miyazaki.
Good point: Hikari talked in a loud voice and the content was easy to understand.


Natsumi Sakai
She talked about Kumamoto's food, Karashi-renkon. She introduced history of it. It was made in 300 years ago. Gentaku, a Buddhist priest, suggested it for Tadatishi Hosokawa, daimyo of Higo-han. Tadaoki was sickly. But after eat it, he became fine. Karashi-renkon was spreaded the general public in the Meiji era.
Good point: Nastumi researched it in datail. I think the content was good.

Yuria Hamada
I talked about brand-name confectionary of Kumamoto, Musyagaeshi and Jindaiko.








 

Fast food

Aiko Kotou
She talked about Yoshinoya. It is one of Japanese fast food shop sell gyudon. There are some another fast foods too. For example set meal,curry,onion lice and so on. In 2003, they had a big trouble about BSE. But they could get over that. Yoshinoya is popular shop now.
Aiko's presentation is researched well. I can know about Yoshinoya very much.

Juri Kawasaki
She talked about MOS Burger. She researched the root of foodstuff from famer to the shop. They pey attention to foodstuff. MOS Burger shop in Kumamoto use locally grown vegetable. And imports are checked strictly. They post the imformation about the foodstuff in their dish. We can see it in front of counter in each shop.
Juri's presentation was very good. She dealt material each member.

Yuuki Nakayama
She talked about SUBWAY. They sell sandwich mainly. The sandwichs are cooked with many vegetables. So they are very healthy. There are many kind of menu. They provide different kind of sandwich every day.
Yuuki used material about SUBWAY's menu. We can see sandwichs picture. So it was easy to understand.

Rika Sasaki
She talked about Yoshinoya. At first, she talked fast food's definition. Yoshinoya is famous for gyudon. Gyudon is beef bowl in English. Yoshinoya's gyudon is very cheap. And they provide food for costomers in a very short time. The shop is many nation and area for example China, Tiwan, Philippines, America and Malaysia.
Rika's talking was smooth. So it was easy to listen.

Mayumi Oki
She talk about MOS Bueger. MOS is loved by all generations. They use wapping of  hambueger. Thanks to that, we can eat it cleanly. And their French fly is very good.
Mayumi's presentation was easy to understand. She didn't look at manuscript and used gesture.

Yuria Hamada
I talked about SUBWAY. It is one of fast food shop from America. They have about 15 regular menu and 5 limited seasen manu. In addition to there are many side menu. Their sandwich is used many kind of vegetables. So they are very healthy. And they bake bread at each shop. They provide made of order foods.