Tamiko Nimura

Personal food essays and poetry here at Kikugirl

• Eggplant zucchini okazu (Okazu Nimura-style)
• Love Letter to a Small Japanese Grocery Store
• Blackberry poem
• 3:14 (Pie Time)
• Time to make pie
• How I Eat (A Letter to E)
• Playing the soup card (Sinigang)
• Chicken adobo, for my mama
• Panzanella, to celebrate summer
• Fried rice (“Cooking became more fun when…”)
• More death, and sandwiches (“First thing I ever cooked”

Seattlest.com (Food-related news, culture, events)

• Q&A Preview of the Wing Luke’s Food Exhibit: “From Fields To Family: Asian Pacific Americans And Food
• “‘What About The Kids?’” Making Sandwiches During The Tacoma Teacher’s Strike
• Seattlest Bites #3: Spicy Pork Torta at Marination Station
• Nettletown Cafe Closing
• Seattlest Bites #2: Pampeana Empanadas
• Seattlest Bites #1: Pupusas from Guanaco’s Pupuseria
• The History of Teriyaki and Beyond: “Itadakimasu!” Exhibit at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center (8/12/11)
• A Few Ways to Celebrate Farmers Market Week” (8/5/11)
• Desperately Seeking Singaporean Food in Seattle: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s A Tiger In The Kitchen (And A Special Recipe)
• Sunset Enters the SEA/PDX Food Fight
• Maruta Shoten: Japanese American Grocery (and Picnic) Goodness”
• Q&As with Farmstead Meatsmith and Keren Brown (aka “Frantic Foodie”)

Other Forums

• “Sending Love In A Box,” Joysauce, July 2024
• Better school lunches, a better world: UW grad student Christine Tran on school nutrition – available in (International Examiner 5/14/15)
• “The Feast That Makes a Family” (available in Edible Seattle Vol.7:1, January/February 2014)
• “My Log Cabin Sukiyaki Song” (available in Remedy Quarterly Issue 7: Heritage and reprintedon Discover Nikkei)). Reprinted in the Nikkei Chronicles Itadakimasu series, October 2012. Reprinted in the Nikkei Voice (Canada, March 2013). Also translated into Spanish and reprinted in the Perú Shimpo (February 2013), and Alternativa Nikkei (Argentina, April 2013), and translated into Japanese and reprinted in the Nikkey Shimbun (Brasil, April 2013).
• Featured on KUOW (Seattle NPR affiliate), “Chicken Adobo Tastes Like Home” (original air date 9/24/11)
• Book review and profile, Shauna James Ahern (Arches Magazine, Autumn 2010)