Celebrating Mom on Mother’s Day
Monday, May 2, 2011 at 4:00AM 
By Sandy Hu
I’m a mother of two sons, Dave in San Francisco, who is CEO and my partner on Special Fork; and Chris, a freelance photographer’s assistant in New York City. I’m also the daughter of 91-year-old Kiyome Matsukawa. So on Mother’s Day, I am feted by my sons and my husband Steve, and I also honor my own mother.
Mom no longer cooks anymore, but she still loves good food and is an adventurous eater. Mom was an excellent cook, as was her mother. In those days when I was growing up in Hawaii, she was considered very progressive. While most of her friends, second-generation Japanese-American women, cooked just Japanese food, my mom was a great experimenter and was eager to try Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Hawaiian and other ethnic foods. She was a good baker, making guava chiffon pies, peanut butter cookies and Japanese manju.