{"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 – by Peter Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter Weber<\/em><\/strong> (Saitama-ken, Gyoda-shi, 2004-07) is the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco.
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Here is how I remember it… My tolerance for food has changed over the years.\u00a0 When I was a child I was they referred to as “picky”.\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

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 foreign country<\/em> and 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 & jelly sandwiches (not peanut butter like I was used to) and potato chips. They were safe and quenched my appetite.<\/p>\n

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Peter Weber (Saitama-ken, Gyoda-shi, 2004-07) is the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco. Here is how I remember it… My tolerance for food has changed over the years.\u00a0 When I was a child I was they referred to as “picky”.\u00a0 Although exposed to many foreign and exotic foods (at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,70,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t