Food Safety Manager Certified
Recently recertified myself so that I can better capture the content needed to perform services. Not only do I have experience being in professional kitchens, I am also clear to enter the preparation area while not risking any issues with rules or regulation. This can allow myself to come in when business hours are done or less busy and stage items myself for photography.
Okayama University
While at Okayama University I ventured outside for my academic comfort zone and endeavored and eventually got to work with/under Dr. Yunlian Chen a Professor at OU who specialized in Urban Development, and Traditional Architecture.
Under their knowledgeable tutelage I did field research on Traditional Japanese architecture and Inaka revitalization efforts in Iwami Ginzan in Shimane, Kurashiki in Okayama, and Yakage in Okayama. Iwami Ginzan was a mining town that was trying to incorporate traditional buildings refurbished traditionally into the revitalization effort to make the town into a new tourist destination centered around their new UNESCO heritage site.
I finished the (EPOK) program having written my thesis on Minka(民家) which roughly translates to “house of the people” and how tradition and revitalization was at odds with each other.