A Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable : what the People Eat : Customs and Etiquette

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Kodansha International, 1992 - Cooking - 112 pages
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This volume aims to enlighten anyone who dines in Japanese restaurants andishes to have a better understanding of the various dishes on the menu andow to eat them.

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This slim volume, based on a series of magazine articles, explains Japanese cuisine in the context of Japanese culture. A brief introduction to the cuisine's aesthetics is followed by 14 handsomely ... Read full review

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Donald Richie
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About the author (1992)

Donald Richie was born, in Lima, Ohio on April 17, 1924. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Maritime Service as a civilian typist. He explored Tokyo on foot and began to attend the movies, which he wrote about for Stars and Stripes and later for the Japan Times. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University in 1953 and then returned to Japan. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a film curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, but by 1973 he returned to live permanently in Japan. He wrote more than 50 books about all aspects of Japan including film, food, social customs, fables, gardens, temples, folk art, music, pop culture, tattoos and sexual mores. His works include The Inland Sea, Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai, The Films of Akira Kurosawa, and Zen Inklings. He died on February 19, 2013 at the age of 88.

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TitleA Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable : what the People Eat : Customs and Etiquette
William G. Lockwood and Yvonne R. Lockwood Collection of National, Ethnic and Regional Foodways
AuthorDonald Richie
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherKodansha International, 1992
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedJun 9, 2009
ISBN4770017073, 9784770017079
Length112 pages
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Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / Japanese
  
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