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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810723503321

Autore

Rath Eric C.

Titolo

Japan's cuisines : food, place and identity / / Eric C. Rath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Reaktion Books, , 2017

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2023

ISBN

1-78023-691-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps, tables

Disciplina

394.120952

Soggetti

Food - History - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

NOTE ON TRANSLATION    Introduction  1 What is Traditional Japanese Food?  2 Tea Cuisine and the Origins of Japanese Cuisine  3 Rice and its Identities  4 The Making of the Modern Boxed Lunch  5 National People's Cuisine  6 When Local Food Became Local Cuisine  7 Local Food Cultures in Saga, KoĢ„chi and Hida  Conclusion    REFERENCES  BIBLIOGRAPHY  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In 2013 'traditional Japanese dietary culture' (washoku) was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Washoku's predecessor was 'national people's cuisine', an attempt during the Second World War to create a uniform diet for all citizens. Japan's Cuisines reveals the diversity of Japanese cuisine and explains how Japan's modern food culture arose through the direction of private and public institutions. Readers will discover how tea came to be portrayed as the origin of Japanese cuisine, how lunch became a gourmet meal and how regions on Japan's periphery are reasserting their distinct food cultures.    This is a fascinating book that reveals how the cuisine from the land of the rising sun shapes national, local and personal identity.