It is "love" of a family to make home cooking delicious.

Sitting around a table with a family decreases, it is said for a long time that it has had influence of negative on children. Moreover, a meal of Japan is diversified and the children who take the imbalanced meal are increasing in number. How should home cooking of Japan be in such a time? What thing is the home cooking that makes children to feel “It is delicious”? We asked chef Hisama, who plays an active part in various media.

I grew up at the home of the five person family who has parents, a younger brother, and a grandmother. Therefore, mother was always making the dish of 5 or 6 articles; the dish for a grandmother, and a child, and father to go with alcohol. I think that it is not that mother likes cooking particularly, but the consciousness as a housewife made her to cook every day. Maybe, an old housewife has pride to their housekeeping. However, recently they feel with the tendency to catch the act of housekeeping in victim.

Although it is good to share housekeeping with a husband, I think it a little different that a housewife considers housekeeping to pain. Original housekeeping is naturally born from mother's love, which is the same as the mother's heart that gives mother's milk to a child. Since only mother can do so, father can't give mother's milk to a child however deep he loves his child.

For example, the people of Italy are said "the pasta of mam is more delicious", even though they are taking a meal at a gorgeous restaurant. It feels that everyone boasts of, proud of mother. The housewife of Italy considers the thing of a husband and a child, the kitchen is settled finely, and, of course, the inside of a house is also cleaned exactly. Therefore, the husband and the child make them pride.

Although there is a negative image when it is called mother complex, I want to say loudly that I am mother complex. Since I like my mother very much, and I have done my best simply because I want my mother to be glad. Because of decreasing of the mother loved by the child, the wife loved by the husband, and the husband loved by the wife, I think whether worth of home cooking has been lost in Japan. If the mother loves her husband and child, she should become wanting to make a delicious dish eaten. And the child who ate it should deeply consider and love their mother, who made that. Even if there is no cooking technique and they can't use a kitchen knife well, the dish of 1000 or 2000 can be performed. The tips which make a delicious dish depend on how deep you love the person who will eat it. As for the person who married with the favorite person, it becomes good at cooking.

Cooking is troublesome work. In order to continue it every day, It is indispensable to love with a family. For example, suppose that a baked eggplant is made. While a baked eggplant is hot, it must strip the skin. It is very hot, tough work and takes about 10 minutes. But a family will eat it at a mouthful. Even if it takes such hard time, the feeling of wanting "to make a delicious baking eggplant eaten" will grow up cooking skill.

The family taste cannot overcome a pro.

Although cooking is my work, I think that the dish which we pay a charge and eat is self-expression of a cook. That is a reason why pro's cook becomes haughty.

I have a happy experience which becomes Katsuya Onizuka's (former WBA junior bantamweight division world champion of pro boxing) under-exclusive-contract cook especially, and continued making cooking only for him; through that experience, I think my arrogance was disappeared a bit.

Every day, I was anxious about his condition and considered how I would make a meal for him to eat smoothly after hard training. It is the same as becoming his mother rather than a chef. At the time of his first game, I made cooking from the flow of "Kaiseki" cooking, and he ate it smoothly every night. Then, at the time of the 2nd game, I wanted to make the meal with a higher quality eaten. So I studied nutritional science, and made cooking. However, "This time’s meal was tight" said from Mr.Onizuka after the game. "I felt as if I am eating some medicine." He said. I think that I was making the dishes using the brain too much. The heart was not contained.

When making cooking also from mother or father to a child, the heart which sympathizes with child’s condition or a state of mind should be put in. A child must be able to think that what is the most delicious is "Nimono" , "Miso soup" or etc, which he can eat at home. I think the child who regards "Kinpira" and "Nikujaga" of dining out as delicious is not blessed with the home cooking containing the heart.

The meal which we can feels happiness.

I think that how many times happiness was able to be felt has the meaning of life. Living is the pile of joy. There is a hard thing inevitably, and it is also hard that I feel hungry. And it is joy to carry out a delicious meal. Three meals per a day, adding a snack then four meals, and if only 1 time you could feel sufficient to have the delicious meal…, I think that is small happiness, an uncanny number of happiness will be accumulated in your life.

If I dare to say as a proffesional chef, whether there is any happiness for 100,000 yen to the visitor who ate the 100,000 yen dish which I made, I think no. Once before, I had made the young boxer who troubled with loss in weight to eat an apple. I cut the apple to 1/8, and then sliced it tiny, like "Fugu-no-Usuzukuri", arranged on a dish with honey and lemon. A dish is full of appearance although there is only about 50g in all. The boxer says, "May I eat like this?" and began to eat. Then his face expression rose rapidly, and he called "this is so delicious!"

Surely, the work of thin structure is made by the technique of the pro. But the heart which considers the young boxer who troubled with loss in weight, made an apple as the delicious dish. The boxer surely felt happiness by an apple, I think.

Probably, there are many ladies who have experience to make chocolate on St Valentine's Day. And also, there are many people who have experienced to make lunch box to someone who you like. The feeling at that time is important. I want you to remember the chocolate and lunch which you wanted those who you love to be pleased with, and were made. Then, naturally a delicious dish should be made. Since the dish makes a family fortunate.