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She imagines the colorful floral array of spring while planting the tulip bulbs. She was surprised last year by the deliciousness of some ginger sweets a local farmer gave her, and grew her own ginger this year. She asks the local farmer around to teach her how to preserve ginger in sugar and is highly satisfied with the taste.
With the soundless cold hovering over the plants in her garden, she enjoys meditation. During a walk, she stops by her favorite café and appreciates homemade sweets with seasonal fruit and tea. She has been a herb expert since childhood and has edited a book about edible wild herbs.
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One of the singular delights of sheltering in place is the stumbling across hidden gardens on the internet that in the fast-paced rush of ordinary times would have remained unexplored. In 1971, at the age of 19, Stanley-Smith fled her aristocratic roots in the U.K. To wander the earth searching for a more meaningful purpose in her life. Her travels led her to India and then to Japan where she started an English-language school and fell in love with a country that would become her home for the next forty years. Venetia is a real herbologist with more than 150 useful herbs in her Ohara, Kyoto garden. She gives a public reading in English about the wisdom and efficacy of herbs.
Hara, Stanley-Smith showcases the seasonal bounty of her adopted home, educating her audience on the richness of the broader community that surrounds her. Structured like an inimitable personal diary, “Venetia” is imbued with an intimacy, warmth and transparency impossible to resist. Hara, an ancient village on the outskirts of Kyöto, each episode is a meditative philosopher’s walk through Japan’s fleeting past and disappearing cultural memory. With each glimpse into this enchanting realm the show reveals Japan — long stereotyped as a nation of robotic office workers devoid of creativity and individuality — as deeply human and grounded in the timelessness of its historical past.
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At the morning market, which she goes every week, she is delighted by the flavor of the yuba . She sets out for the tofu shop to discover how it is made. Share Venetia Stanley-Smith's seasonal living in rural Kyoto, as she introduces us to local people, produce, cooking and crafts. Venetia lives among her herbs in the Ohara district of Kyoto Prefecture but comes originally from Britain. She visited Ireland, where her mother spent her final years, in the summer of 2010 and met up with her younger siblings for the first time in a long while. English-born Venetia organizes an open garden for the first time in a long time.
Discover her original recipes, watch her journeys across Japan, and experience Venetia’s unhurried lifestyle and truly eco-friendly way of living. I agree, this lady had a lovely life and she apparently shared it most generously with everyone who was interested, least all the NHK viewers, in Japan and abroad. She must have clearly been a bit of a rebel in her stiff upper lip British aristocratic family and then to do all the things she did ...
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Hasu fires his earthenware after spending months and years to mature the Iga clay. His distinctive products are designed for serving food and Venetia savors his creations together with his home cooking. The kind hospitality of her old friends fills her with a sense of well-being. Venetia lives in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture, appreciating each season.
She tastes a precious cup full of the farmer's passion for 100% locally grown coffee. A friend treats her to dishes flavored with muscovado. She then visits a sugar maker who makes muscovado the old-fashioned way. He quit his job a few years ago to become a sugar maker.
As “Venetia” concluded its 10th season in 2019, 69-year-old Stanley-Smith’s journey took an unexpected turn once again. Because of her failing eyesight and memory, the host lost her ability to cook or visit with her long brocade of friends; even the simplest tasks now required the assistance of her husband and extended family. The show has since gone on an indefinite hiatus with its future yet to be determined. Venetia lives surrounded by her herbs in the mountain community of Ohara in Kyoto Prefecture but comes from an aristocratic family in England. A visit to her homeland in the summer of 2010 was also an opportunity to look back on her life so far.
She is a firm believer in living in accordance with nature, and utilizes its gifts in all aspects of daily living. Venetia’s garden is filled with over 100 varieties of seasonal herbs. She uses them in recipes for cooking, cleaning, and beauty in her own unique style. In Iwate Prefecture, British-born Venetia visits a workshop for Japanese chests of drawers, or tansu, dating from the Edo era.
Going along with the seasons, Venetia makes cocoa butter cream to soothe her skin tanned from the garden work in summer and cleans the wood stove with lavender vinegar in preparation for the coming winter. She visits the herb garden of Noriko, an old friend who helps her with the garden work. A certified instructor of floral designs, she makes seasonal wreaths from wild herbs so that more people can appreciate the beauty of wild flowers. British-born Venetia lives in Nature-rich Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture.
With the severe winter just around the corner, Venetia enjoys the calm and fruitful fall season in Ohara. She arranges flowers from her garden and makes apple compote with her daughter. Another fall delicacy she finds at a morning market is mackerel sushi, with Ohara historically known for this fish. She decides to have her long-broken toy bus fixed so that her grandchildren can play with it. She befriends the couple running a woodworking shop she visited and digs up potatoes in their garden.
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