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Notes on Japanese Cuisine 1946

Posted on August 25, 2021 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I picked up a cheap copy of an old 19461 tourist pamphlet Notes on Japanese Cuisine by Katsumata Senkichirō (勝俣銓吉郎). I’ve scanned my copy and uploaded it ...

Economics/Food/International Affairs

Canadian pot and the lessons of opium

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Apparently Canada has legalized pot. The New Republic is speculating that they may find it hard to get an official distribution system to replace the old illega...

Current Events/Food/General/Humor

Trump Promotes Chinese Food: Egg roll on White House Lawn

Posted on April 23, 2017 by C. W. Hayford / 1 Comment

      In an unusual move, last Monday the White House lawn was given over to egg rolls. The Italian Ambassador contributed to the moment by bringing “ciao mein....

1960s/Books/China/Food/Yuan

Fake News? Chinese Cannibalism Cookbooks?

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

Sy Montgomery’s review of CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History By Bill Schutt includes the following paragraph: Next time you eat Chinese, for example...

China-Japan/Economics/Food

Protests, national identity, and food

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via LGM I find this piece on anti KFC protests in China. KFC was once known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, but they have changed their name to KFC, in part to make ...

Books/Food/Qing/Social History/Translation

Yuan Mei, Food Network star

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As  Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book is now available in English translation, I have been reading the whole thing. One of the things that strikes me is how...

Food

The Garden of Accord Food Book

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book has been translated into English. This is one of the classic Chinese texts on cooking, and by reading it I have alre...

Books/Cultural/Environment/Food/Historiography

Food History Themes and Exceptions

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Once is a fluke. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a conspiracy. There’s a theme that runs through a great deal of food history writing, nearly all of ...

Culture/Food/Pigs

History of Pigs

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As we seem to be the internet center for Chinese history and pigs I thought I would call to your attention Pigs, Pork, and Ham: The Practice of Pig-Farming and ...

Books and Articles/Food/Japan/Nationalism

Science, Social Science, and Pseudoscience of Diet/Culture Thesis

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Eminent food historian Rachel Laudan alerted me recently to the existence of new scholarship, cultural psychology, giving support to the idea that different bas...

China/English/Food/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

I made tea eggs today

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Apparently this makes me both a multi-millionaire and part of cross-straits relations. I have not kept up as much as I should with the current Taiwan protests, ...

China/English/Food/Public History

Underage drinking in Southeast Asia

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Apparently the Mint Museum of Toys in Singapore is worth seeing. Although I have not been, it seems that they currently have an exhibit up on “Guinness by...

China/Food

New Years means time to cook a lot

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Taiwan Constitution Day has come and gone, and I got some books. Most notably  my wife got me Alford, Jeffrey, and Naomi Duguid. Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes ...

China/Culture/English/Food

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions: It's a Post-Authentic World

Posted on March 24, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

A note to those who are imprudent enough not to follow the Japanese side of Frog in a Well:  Jonathan Dresner has a smart, witty, and informative piece, Credent...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Food/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/Memory/Nationalism

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Japan Times article on Japan’s application to UNESCO to have 和食 [washoku, Japanese cuisine] declared an internationally recognized “intangible c...

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