Why?

In the first place, for innovation week we both wanted to incorporate cooking/baking because we both enjoy it. Since we need to involve some sort of Japanese aspect, we decided to make Japanese food. But why? What is the point of making Japanese food? Japanese diets are one of the healthiest in the world, so we decided to compare Japanese and our own Western cuisine in order to show the difference in each.

We chose to compare both Japanese and Western desserts because we noticed the vast contrast in ingredient choices. In our Western society, desserts typically make you think of  cakes and chocolate. In Japanese desserts, I think of more もち (mochi) and あん子 (red bean paste). The desserts are quite different in both cultures and we are going to make both and compare them.