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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453570603321

Autore

Hosking Richard

Titolo

A dictionary of Japanese food : ingredients & culture / / Richard Hosking ; Naomichi Ishige, foreword

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, Japan : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-4629-0343-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IshigeNaomichi

Disciplina

641.5952/03

Soggetti

Cooking, Japanese - Japanese

Japanese language - English

Cooking, Japanese

English language - Japanese

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Pronunciation of Japanese; Japanese Writing; Arrangement of the Dictionary; Scientific Names; Japanese-English; English-Japanese; Appendices; 1. Chopsticks; 2. Katsuobushi; 3. The Kitchen and Its Utensils; 4. Kombu; 5. The Meal; 6. Miso; 7. Sake; 8. Salt; 9. Sansai; 10. Soy Sauce; 11. Sushi; 12. Tea; 13. The Tea Ceremony; 14. Umami and Flavor; 15. Vegetarianism; 16. Wasabi; 17. Was an bon Sugar; Recommended Reading; Works of Reference; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

At last, what every Westerner in a Japanese restaurant or market needs: the first truly comprehensive dictionary of Japanese food and ingredients.  Standard dictionaries can often mislead us--with akebia for akebi, sea cucumber for namako, plum for ume. Hosking's dictionary includes not only dishes and ingredients, everything from the delicate mitsuba leaf to the dreadful okoze fish: colorful appendices disclose such aspects of Japanese culture as the making of miso to the tea ceremony and the influence of vegetarianism. With Japanese-English and English-Japanese sections, A Di