Modern Japanese cuisine : food, power and national identity / Katarzyna J. Cwiertka.
"Katarzyna Cwiertka shows that key shifts in the Japanese diet were, in many cases, a consequence of modern imperialism. Exploring reforms in home cooking and military catering, wartime food management and the rise of urban gastronomy, she reveals how Japan's pre-modern culinary diversity...
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Reaktion,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Western food, politics and fashion
- 2. The road to multicultural gastronomy
- 3. Strengthening the military
- 4. Reforming home meals
- 5. Wartime mobilization and food rationing
- 6. The culinary consequences of Japanese imperialism
- 7. Multiple circuits of affluence
- Conclusion : the making of a national cuisine
- Postscript : Japanese cuisine goes global.