CURRENT MISSION

Starting conversations about social justice, food justice and tasty wine.

ABOUT ME

Living Beacon, NY in the southern part of the Hudson Valley.

Graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and before that was working at restaurants in Tokyo. Also spent a year teaching at a Junior High School in rural Hyogo prefecture, Japan (about 2.5 hours from Osaka and Kobe)

PHILOSOPHY

Just do what you do, and do it good.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Can meet up with CSers visiting the Hudson Valley or NYC

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Been hosted by many great CSers in Vietnam. Looking forward to the day I can host myself!

Interests

I spend most of my time engaging in or ruminating on: Japanese food, cooking, grilled fish, sushi, rice, hiking, and dismantling racism in America.

• documentaries
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• japanese food
• politics
• anime
• hiking
• basketball
• sake

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Hobbit, 12 Angry Men, Whitness for the Prosecution, Anatomy of a Murder, The Verdict, and A Few Good Men. And Zoolander too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Drove a small motorbike down a mountain in Vietnam

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach you Japanese, but it might be more fun if I teach you how to make Japanese food!

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United States

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