Author Katherine Tamiko Arguile will talk about her recently published book Meshi: A personal history of Japanese Food, at Aldinga Library on Friday 20 May.

Born and raised in Tokyo, arts journalist and author Katherine is a graduate of Cambridge University.

She has lived in Adelaide since 2008 and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. 

Her award-winning short stories have been published in anthologies in the UK and in Australia and her debut novel, The Things She Owned, was published in 2020.

For Katherine the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes felt lost in the past. 

In Japan, food is never just food: it expresses a complex and fascinating history, and is tied to tradition and spirituality intrinsic to Japanese culture.

Exploring the meals of her childhood through Japan’s twenty-four seasons, Katherine untangles the threads of meaning, memory and ritual woven through every  bowl of rice, every slice of sashimi and each steaming cup of green tea.

Copies of Meshi will be available to purchase, courtesy of Shakespeare's Bookshop.

Tickets to the talk cost $10 and include some Japanese snacks. It starts at 6pm; book via Eventbrite.

Wine and beer will be available to purchase courtesy of Kick Back Brewery & Taphouse.