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The Essence of Japanese Cuisine: An Essay on Food and Culture

By Michael Ashkenazi , Jeanne Jacob

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
ISBN
070071085X, 9780700710850
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2129971 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
252\0
Time added
2018-01-23 08:59:04
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Description

The past few years have shown a growing interest in cooking and food, as a result of international food issues such as BSE, world trade and mass foreign travel, and at the same time there has been growing interest in Japanese Studies since the 1970s. This volume brings together the two interests of Japan and food, examining both from a number of perspectives. The book reflects on the social and cultural side of Japanese food, and at the same time reflects also on the ways in which Japanese culture has been affected by food, a basic human institution. Providing the reader with the historical and social bases to understand how Japanese cuisine has been and is being shaped, this book assumes minimal familiarity with Japanese society, but instead explores the country through the topic of its cuisine.

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