Tonkatsu

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Tonkatsu, breaded pork cutlet with an ingenious sauce.

Throughout my youth, when Mom, Dad, and I sat down to dinner, I wouldn’t get more than two bites into the meal before Dad, with a happy grin, asked us, “What should we have for dinner tomorrow?” Ann’s father was the same way. These guys loved to eat.

Ann and I are the same, but more often that not (be…