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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Temple of Noodledom; The Ramen Question; Ramen -- An International Force; Noodles and Nationalism -- 1: Three Sages Walk into a Restaurant and ... Noodles; The Arrival of Noodles in China -- Noodle Loaf; Food Legends and the Roots of Noodle Worship; Premodern Noodles -- 2: Court Food versus Common Food; Shinto and Food; Chinese Food Technology; The Rise of Samurai and Medieval Japanese Food -- 3: International Japan, Foreign Foods and IsolationThe Rise of New Leaders and New Japanese Foodways; Edo is Not the Only City -- Tokugawa Peace and a Piece of the Pie; Nagasaki and Chinese Food; Food and the Chinese; Passion for Noodles -- Soba and Udon; Banning Noodle Consumption -- 4: Early Modern Noodles and the Myth of Ramen; Japan's First Chinese Chef -- Shu Shunsui; Edo -- Feast and Famine; Kansai versus Kanto Taste; Edo and Meat Eating -- 5: The Meiji Restoration: Menu Renovation on the Road to Ramen; Treaty Ports; Barbarians and Banquets; Japanese and Meat Eating; The Militarization of Food. Sources of Bunmei Kaika-Civilization and EnlightenmentNagasaki and Champon Noodles -- 6: Diplomacy and the Desire to Impress; Imperial Dining; Health, Hygiene and Food; Chinese in Meiji Japan; Imperialism and Food -- 7: Empire and Japanese Cuisine; Time is the Meter of Civilization-the Birth of Delicious; Food and Excrement; Raising the Standard; Ramen Debuts on the Japanese Stage; Other Theories; Nighttime Dining, Students and Erotic, Grotesque Nonsense; The Rise of "Nutrition"; Edo Started the Process, Meiji Promoted and Taisho Finalized -- 8: World War II Cuisine: A World Adrift. Starving Japan and Bountiful AmericaThe Path to War; Wartime Cuisine and the Nation; Japanese Soldiers and Food; Food and Victory; Japanese Identity and Rice; Battle Zones and Prisoners of War; Food and the Home Front; Surrender and the Dissolution of Imperial Food -- 9: History at the Dining Table: Postwar Instant Ramen; The Sudden Postwar; A Land without Food; Repatriates and Food; A Dream Come True -- Instant Ramen; Why Invent Instant Ramen; Japan and Instant Ramen; The Ramen Boom; Ramen and Food Tourism; Branding the Local; Ramen Finds Its Way Abroad -- First to America. You Are Not What You Eat "Fighting for a Share of the Stomach"; Is Ramen Part of Japanese Cuisine; Ramen Is Japan -- 10: Ramen Popular Culture; How to Eat Ramen -- Slurp!; Comedy and Ramen; Ramen Fanatics; Musée de Ramen; Ramen Stadiums; Manga and Ramen Music; For the Love of Sushi; Ramen -- With a New York State of Mind; The Global Impact of Japanese Food; The Rise of Ramen and Japanese Popular Culture; Competition for Original Ramen -- Conclusion; The Dark Side of Food Greatness; The Future of Food in Japan; Changes in the Contemporary Japanese Diet; Did Japanese Food Create Japanese Identity. |
| Summary |
Based on research in Chinese and Japanese, as well as interviews with comedians, food service professionals, entertainment managers, store-owners, customers, and scholars of food history, Kushner explores the history of ramen and Japan's noodle culture over the last 1,000 years. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Noodles -- Japan.
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Noodles. |
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Japan. |
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Noodles -- Japan -- History.
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History. |
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Pasta products -- Japan -- History.
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Pasta products. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Social and culinary history of ramen, Japan's favorite noodle soup |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kushner, Barak, 1968- Slurp! Leiden ; Boston : Global Oriental, 2012 9789004218451 (DLC) 2012027430 (OCoLC)805544832 |
| ISBN |
9789004220980 (electronic book) |
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9004220984 (electronic book) |
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9789004218451 |
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9004218459 |
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