{"id":2120,"date":"2008-12-08T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2008-12-17T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:48:57","slug":"learning-to-eat-by-peter-webber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/08\/learning-to-eat-by-peter-webber\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Eat &#8211; by Peter Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meetthewebers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/294110679_4d7d904100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Mac And Cheese With Hotdog\" src=\"http:\/\/meetthewebers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/294110679_4d7d904100-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Mac and Cheese w\/ Hotdogs\" width=\"216\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Peter Weber<\/em><\/strong><em> (Saitama-ken, Gyoda-shi, 2004-07) is the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is how I remember it&#8230; My tolerance for food has changed over the years.\u00a0 When I was a child I was they referred to as &#8220;picky&#8221;.\u00a0 Although exposed to many foreign and exotic foods (at least for Ohio) by my mother I would usually abstain from the meal.\u00a0 The perfect meal for me was alternating days between hamburgers and pizza with an occasional mac and cheese with hotdogs dinner.\u00a0 This changed a bit when I got older, but not by much.<\/p>\n<p>When I was living in Japan I found one of the biggest challenges for me was the diet. Upon my arrival in Japan the difference in types of food people ate was apparent very quickly as I realized that <em>foreign country<\/em> and <em>foreign food<\/em> went hand in hand. Luckily there was always an abundance of rice that I could fill myself with until I could hunt down something familiar to my senses. Grocery shopping was also a major challenge trying to find foods that look appetizing. A typical purchase of mine consisted of peanut cream &amp; jelly sandwiches (not peanut butter like I was used to) and potato chips. They were safe and quenched my appetite.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/meetthewebers.com\/?cat=4\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Weber (Saitama-ken, Gyoda-shi, 2004-07) is the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco. 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