This essay is also a public diary. It is a daily record of a unique character, forward-looking and backward-looking, hard-working and lazy, clever and shallow.
Struggling to raise a child for the first time, discovering new foods, inviting friends over, going out, etc. These days are turned upside down by Covid, and she finds herself living a life of self-restraint. As she shut herself away, she gradually become aware of the unreasonableness and division in the world. The importance of saying “no” from one’s own standpoint, and the atmosphere of the world that will surely change by speaking out. This collection of essays by popular writer Asako Yuzuki chronicles the four years from 2018 to 2022 through the lens of food and cooking. Newly written essays are included at the end of each chapter.
1. Come to my house, January-December 2018
2. Taste of home, taste of outside, January-December 2019
3. And here comes Covid, January-December 2020
4. No more shutting up, April 2021 – March 2022