A group of Lovett College students gathered in the commons Nov. 4 to make onigiri, the Japanese comfort food also called “rice balls,” despite their often triangular shape.
The onigiri-making session was organized by Naoko Ozaki, lecturer in Japanese at the Center for Language and Intercultural Communication and a resident adviser at Lovett, for the annual Onigiri Action challenge.
For every photo of an onigiri posted to social media with the hashtag #OnigiriAction, the Japanese initiative Table for Two and its partner organizations donate five school meals to children in need. Since its launch in 2015, the Onigiri Action campaign has provided 5.4 million of these meals.
Ozaki also enlisted the assistance of the Seibel Servery team, which made two massive pans of special sushi rice to use. After molding and decorating their rice balls with seaweed and seasoning, the students made sure their onigiri pics were posted online before chowing down.