WELCOME back to the Way to Japan Autumn 2022 interview series! 

I hugely enjoyed talking to my inspirational friend Anna, who is a Devon-based nutritionist and a mum in a busy Japanese British family day-to-day. I met Anna through an online course have since been relishing her Japan-inspired approach to food over on Instagram. 

Anna has gained much first-hand insight into the Japanese ways of approaching food through her varied experiences of living in Japan, first teaching in rural Akita, then returning with her Japanese husband and children to live and work managing a guesthouse in rural Kyoto. When she returned to the UK, she used her unique perspective to set up a social enterprise, Nourishing Families, which supports parents, children and young people to build a lifelong positive relationship with food to nurture wellbeing. 

Anna is the Nutrition for Wellbeing Lead at the National Center for Integrated Medicine. She was shortlisted for a Wellbeing Award in the Complementary Therapy Awards 2022. 

In this episode, we chat about:

• Why likes and dislikes are not allowed 🙅‍♀️
• The way school lunches are served in Japan 
• Why 'mottainai' can mean a wasted opportunity
• A GREAT excuse to buy a dinner gong! 
• Why we couldn't live without our rice cookers

Thank you so much for listening! To read the podcast transcript, click here.

Get to know Anna's work better:

• Instagram @kandojournalandkitchen
• Instagram @NourishingFamiliesCIC
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kandonutrition
• Website https://www.nourishingfamilies.co.uk
• Eat, Talk, Thrive course info 

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Korekara yoroshiku onegaishimasu. ♡ Vanessa