Warren R. Anderson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

While teaching and living in Japan, Warren Anderson took up the hobbies of food smoking and sausage making, and he has pursued these hobbies earnestly since 1985. At one point in time, he seriously considered launching a new career in Japan as a professional food smoker and sausage maker. He concluded, however, that it would be a better idea for him to use his teaching skills to write manuals about these subjects. Consequently, in 1995, he began to write two books so that he could share with others the knowledge that he had accumulated. The first book, Mastering the Craft of Smoking Food, was published in 2006. His second book, Mastering the Craft of Making Sausage, was published in 2010.

Mr. Anderson returned to the United States in 1998, and is presently semi-retired; he lives with his wife in Aloha, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.

Mr. Anderson is a graduate of the University of Oregon, where he studied the Japanese language and majored in East Asian Studies. He also earned a master's degree in International Business at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

Warren Anderson has worked as a chemical technician, an electronic technician, a carpenter's helper, a bilingual social worker, an Asian business specialist, and as an instructor of English as a foreign language. As an English instructor, Mr. Anderson taught at several Japanese universities for over twenty years. He also owned and operated a private English school in Kyushu, Japan. He speaks Japanese fluently.