Legacy of Japanese woman’s apple pie store lives on in California
Harry Carr Jr. and his partner, Jennifer Yukimi Tusa, now run Mom's Apple Pie in Sebastopol, California. | CHUNICHI SHIMBUN
CHUNICHI SHIMBUN
Oct 19, 2026
Michiko Kameshima, a native of Nagoya, moved to the United States on her own in 1949, four years after the end of World War II.
After studying home economics in college in the U.S., she got married and became the mother of three sons.
While running an apple orchard and a farm stand with her husband, she opened Mom’s Apple Pie, an apple pie shop, in Sebastopol, northern California, in 1984.
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