I am a print journalism student at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I write a no nonsense cooking column for the university paper as well as play the role of "food guru" to the paper as well. I grew up in Japan and moved to Logan four years ago. Patisseries and bread. Growing up in Japan I was exposed to European bread at a young age, I fell in love and now wanting go to school for it. I hold a special place in my heart for cultural cooking and love to cooking dishes from all over the world. My favorite is learning how to cook native dishes by the people from that particular country Ebelskive. My family immigrated from Denmark in the 1920's and we hold onto our Danish heritage pretty strongly. Every Christmas we make Ebelskive on Christmas morning. Since we spent 12 years in Japan we hold pretty strongly to Japanese traditions as well and cooking a HUGE Japanese feast on New Years to celebrate the new year and the cross pollination of cultures. The first recipe I created myself, vegan avocado fudge. I found lots of recipes for it online but none of them gave me what I wanted so I did some research and came up with my own. Since then all of my triumphs have been sharing my love of cooking with the collegiate population of Logan through my column "Domestic Domination" The first time I tried to make naan and the time I used a creme brulee recipe I had never used before. The naan was a disaster because the house was to cold for the dough to rise. The creme brulee sucked because it called for to many eggs and I forgot to get fuel for my blow torch so I had to use the broiler. I ended up with eggy creme brulee and overly carmalized sugar on top. DISASTER!