Mai and the Missing Melon (Sonoko Sakai, Keiko Brodeur) International Thanksgiving breakfast entree

Thanksgiving breakfast entree

and with love for all the meats—is for gatherings big and small

It's a slow-roasted chicken on a bed of unapologetically schmaltzy croutons

coriander stew

Mai and the Missing Melon (Sonoko Sakai, Keiko Brodeur) International Thanksgiving breakfast entreeAn exploration of Japanese food, culture, and history that celebrates the special relationship between a child, her grandmother, and the power of kindness, for kids 3 7, by the author of Japanese Home Cooking, Sonoko Sakai. This charming story invites the reader on a journey through rural 1960s Japan following a little girl named Mai on the Enoden train, past the oceanside populated with fishers, and to the classic shrine like home of her grandmother,