Kyiv University Hosts Washoku Class Taught by Alumna Who Trained in Japan

Overview

• The Dec. 8 session at the National University of Trade and Economics introduced Japanese cooking techniques to students preparing for food-service careers.
• The instructor was Larisa Balska, 51, a Dnipro native and graduate of the university who evacuated to Japan after Russia’s invasion.
• Balska demonstrated how to make nigiri sushi as about 20 students watched her technique.
• She said daily blackouts in Kyiv make it difficult to keep ingredients as well chilled as in Japan, complicating kitchen practice.
• During roughly three years in Japan, she lived in Osaka and Tokyo and trained at a washoku restaurant in Chiba City before returning to teach.