Warren Anderson has worked as a chemical technician, an electronic technician, a carpenter’s helper, a bilingual social worker, an Asian business specialist, and 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.
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.
While teaching and living in Japan, he took up food smoking as a hobby, and he has pursued that hobby earnestly since 1985. At one point, he seriously considered launching a new career in Japan as a professional food smoker. He concluded, however, that it would be a better idea for him to use his teaching skills to write a manual about food smoking. Consequently, in 1995, he began to write this book so that he could share with others the knowledge that he had accumulated.
Mr. Anderson returned to the United States in 1998, and he is presently semi-retired and living with his wife in Aloha, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.