Okaasan Itadakimasu -

A respectful way to address one's own mother or someone else's mother. Itadakimasu:

The phrase takes on a heartbreaking dimension when the mother is absent—due to work, illness, or death. A university student living alone might call home and say over the phone, "Kondo kaetta toki, okaasan no ryouri tabetai na. Okaasan, itadakimasu." (Next time I come home, I want to eat your cooking. Okaasan, I humbly receive.) The meal is deferred, but the gratitude is not. okaasan itadakimasu

So the next time you sit down to a home-cooked meal—whether in Tokyo, Los Angeles, or Paris—pause. Think of the person who chopped, stirred, and sweated for you. And even if you don’t speak Japanese, channel the spirit of "Okaasan, itadakimasu." A respectful way to address one's own mother

However, the cultural archetype remains okaasan because of her historical and emotional centrality in the Japanese kitchen. The katei no aji (taste of home) is almost always okaasan no aji (mother’s taste). Okaasan, itadakimasu