Starting from October, we have new Super Supporter bloggers to introduce, with lots of interesting things to say and things to show us. Here’s Devon from America, and her first entry for us! There’s a biography at the end to get to know her more.

I have to admit, my biggest pet peeve about sharing a kitchen with many people is NOT that I can’t control the level of cleanliness or the fact that people may not put dishes back where I believe they should go.  I’m okay with that.  I’m pretty adaptable in that respect.  But when it comes to the day after day question of “What are you cooking tonight?”, my skin just crawls.  I find it sort of intrusive.   Can’t they just look? Must they know? Maybe it’s because I’m ashamed by the fact that yakisoba has become a frequent addition in my cooking rotation? Maybe it’s because when on a budget, there are days when I may be dining on a hot, steamy… cup of noodles.  Maybe it’s a language barrier thing like we have nothing else to talk about? Umm… Let’s just chat about the weather, okay?

But I digress. After all, “Devon’s yakisoba” has become quite renowned.

Devon Bartlett grew up in beautiful Denver, Colorado, spending her whole childhood in the same neighborhood, on the same street, and in the same house and for this, she is thankful. However, her curiosity about other places and other people has inspired her to live in a number of cities (including Portland, Oregon; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; and Osaka, Japan), studying everything from music therapy, piano, and jazz promotion to Japanese. She loves and misses the natural beauty of her hometown but can’t shake the excitement and sense of adventure she feels in big cities. She now calls Tokyo home and spends her days as a preschool teacher.