ocr: "I prepared shigeru's lunch each day and filled his metal lunch box with rice, cooked vegetables or cooked meat or sometimes eggs (scrambled with soy sauce and sugar, called tamago yaki). - my mother recalls. "The lunch box was first wrapped in a square cloth like a big handkerchief, Shigeru's Lunch box then it was fitted neatly into a small canvas bag with a strap. "In summer the square cloth was made of broadcloth; in winter, Ilannel to help insulate the food. Shigeru carried the lunch box all through Kindergarten. He had to carry chopsticks also. Starting in first grade, he got his lunch at ...
