Cooking enthusiast Remi Hirano

Remi Hirano

Cooking enthusiast. As a housewife, she is active as a cooking enthusiast, making use of her experience in cooking home-cooked meals.
With the motto of "chef cooking" rather than "chef cooking," he has shared many innovative dishes on television, in magazines, etc. He also proposes a bright and energetic lifestyle through lectures and essays, and has developed kitchen goods such as Remipan and Ziplon.

"Hirano Remi's All-Star Recipes: Deepening Family Bonds Through Food" (Shufunotomosha) is now on sale.

Spreading happiness from the kitchen with delicious and easy meals

--What was your student life like?
Being true to my heart has never changed. My high school was a preparatory school where I was immersed in studying, but I wanted to go to a school with more freedom, so I transferred in my second year. After that, I started to enjoy every day.
My father's constant refrain of "Find something you love and do it thoroughly" was a great support for me. I discovered cooking because I continued to grow vegetables, which I loved. I took a bite of a tomato I was growing in the garden and wondered if I could do something with it, so I made tomato gratin. It was delicious, and while in the world of arithmetic, 1 + 1 = 2, in the world of cooking, when you combine ingredients and try to make something delicious, 1 + 1 = 10 or even 100, which I found fascinating. From there, I became obsessed with cooking.

--Please tell us what motivated you to start your current job.
Makoto Wada (the husband) had many friends and always had guests over at his home. Whenever he would cook for them, the famous gourmet pianist Masao Yagi approached him about writing a relay essay series about food for the cooking magazine "Four Seasons Taste." At first he declined, but finally gave in and agreed to do it just once. However, that essay led to him receiving cooking jobs, and a new path opened up for him.
Even back then, I was always striving to create simple and delicious home-cooked meals from the perspective of a chef, not a chef. When I first appeared on a cooking show, I mashed tomatoes with my hands instead of using a knife, and the TV crew protested, saying they had never seen anyone do it that way. However, I said, "This is the way I do it, so I can't change it."
I firmly refused. I think it's more important to be honest with your feelings than to worry about appearances.

--Please give a message to children.
When you are passionate about something you love, words like "painful" or "effort" never seem to come to mind, and time passes by in the blink of an eye. If you don't do things you don't like, you'll always have a calm smile on your face. To do that, you need to find something you can be passionate about.

Elementary School Newspaper September 15, 2022 Issue, Nihon University 9rd Year Student, Shibano Momoshichi