Navy veteran’s bet led to living in Japan, show business and now a food channel on YouTube
This vegetable pancake created with wheat-based flour, is a savory Japanese dish, which takes about 12 minutes to prepare. Cydonie Brown of Taftville said this dish can be topped with pickled red ginger or shredded carrots, as well as fish flakes, dry seaweed strips and either teriyaki or okonomiyaki sauce. (photo submitted)
Cydonie Brown of Taftville tries on a kimono on Sept. 1, 1999 in Japan. After taking a class on how to wear a kimono in Japan, Brown who is a biracial black/Native American woman, said she was interviewed on a television show, because she didn’t fit the traditional stereotype of a Japanese woman. (photo courtesy of Takashi Fukami)