Finding a name for this blog has been harder than I thought.

My mom didn’t like the first name, Saffron & Basil.

No one liked Cook.Bake.Eat.Write—way too long.

So what about MixiCook. I wanted to include some reference to my mixed cultural heritage. So I used the name of a popular online social network for mixed people in Japan, mixi, to do just that.

I hope my mom gets it. I can already here her saying, “Oh, noooo. This not good. No one can understand…”  (-_-”)

Well, I think its culturally-representative, cute, fun—and more like me.