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Peaceful Cuisine: A Culinary ASMR Experience

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By Wren Stuart Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRxHwMrYvg&feature=share Image courtesy of Creative Commons This video comes from the channel that goes by the username Peaceful Cuisine on YouTube. Peaceful Cuisine features a wide selection of cooking videos of aesthetically pleasing Japanese cuisine with music playing in the background, but what drew me to the channel was its cooking videos without any background noise. The only sounds you hear during the video are the pouring and mixing of ingredients. In this video the person is shown to be making sakura anpan, a Japanese sweet roll in the shape of sakura (cherry blossoms). Along with the satisfying visuals, the video also provides ingredient measurements and instructions in the description below the video. These videos would be considered as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response  ( ASMR), a popular trend that’s being spread around social media. The result is a lovely yet delicious looking pink pastry. I chos