Your Bento Boxes Could Be Better
In the Times today, there's an article on Japan's "empress of domesticity," Harumi Kurihara. Kurihara is in the States to debut her first English-language cookbook, Harumi's Japanese Cooking, a natural expansion of her Japanese brand which includes "television cooking shows, housewares stores, cookbooks and food magazines" that "have propelled her to rock-star status in Japan." Sound familiar? Of course it does: The Martha is multiplying, like an evil, apron-wearing mogwai.
Sigh. America just can't seem to do right by those poor people.
