cold wind and warm feelings to the ones you love or cold snow and hot soup...
Soup…
In the beginning of December we welcomed Mrs. Mayumi Yanai in one of the oldest cinemas of Moscow. Mrs. Mayumi Yanai has been a chief producer in Japan's oldest cooking TV program "KYO-NO-RYORI" (English Title: Today’s Cooking) for over 20 years.
12月初旬、私たちはモスクワ市内で最も古い映画館の中の一館に矢内真由美さんをお招きしました。矢内さんはNHKの長寿料理番組「きょうの料理」のチーフプロデューサーを20年以上にも渡って務められています。
She introduced a documentary film about Mrs. Yoshiko Tatsumi and her soup, titled "Tennoshizuku Tatusmi Yoshiko Inochi no Soup/ Drops of Heaven".
The movie is full of unforgettable flavors and breath-taking views of Japan.
But I should say that there is much less about food in the film than you imagine when you see the title. Deep philosophical thoughts pervade it.

"Cookery guru serves wisdom with her soups..."
料理家は、スープと共に英知をも提供しています。
"Cookery guru serves wisdom with her soups..."
料理家は、スープと共に英知をも提供しています。
Let me introduce an article in Japanese written by ex-JF blogger Any.
You can find it here → http://roshianow.jp/arts/2013/12/17/46449.html
元基金ブロガーのAnyさんによる日本語の記事はこちらのリンクから→ http://roshianow.jp/arts/2013/12/17/46449.html
The English version is below!
5hours before screening/ the kitchen of the Japan Foundation Moscow Office: "I wanted to introduce to the Russians this Brown Rice Soup - the most traditional and the simplest in cooking one." – says Mrs. Mayumi Yanai folding ingredients – roasted brown rice, natural kelp and organic grown pickled plum
The preparation of authentic Japanese food is not so complicated. "The point is that you have to prepare meals by making the best use of the original taste of each ingredient. It is exactly what sets in order our bodies. I believe this way of eating will save the world." - says Mrs. Yanai.
The screening of this documentary film was arranged not only in order to introduce Japanese food abroad but also to attract people's attention to the problem called «koshoku», which means eat alone and feel lonely. There are a lot of families in Russia where both parents work and children have meals by themselves. So it is quite a pressing problem here, too.
Warm words about the warm soup…
A 73-year-old woman said that Japanese are really philosophic people. They love nature, spending their time to observe it, and living in unison with it.
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Mrs.Mayumi Yanai, Senior Producer/ NHK Educational Corporation
矢内真由美さん((株)NHKエデュケーショナル シニアプロデューサー)
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We hope that this film will make more Russians gather at their kitchens every day to have meals together.
It feels like even frozen Moscow has become a bit warmer.