Gil Asakawa

Tabemasho! Let's Eat!

A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781611720686
• ISBN-10: 1611720680
• Artikelnr.: 62223560

Autorenporträt

Gil Asakawa is the author of Being Japanese American (Stone Bridge Press). He is a nationally known journalist, blogger, and speaker about Japanese and Japanese American culture and history. He is also a foodie and an amateur chef who writes about food and posts photos of food on social media and on his blog, NikkeiView.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Get Hungry!
Chapter 1: Appetizers: The Ingredients That Make Up the Bento Box
Chapter 2: First Course: The "Big Three" Japanese Foods to Americans --
Teriyaki, Sukiyaki and Tempura
Chapter 3: Entrees: Over a Century of Japanese Restaurants
Chapter 4: Japanese American adaptations including incarceration
Chapter 5: Rolling on: If you knew sushi like I knew sushi...
Chapter 6: Oodles of noodles: Udon, Soba and of course, Ramen, the "it"
food
Chapter 7: Bowl me over: Anything on a bowl of rice is delicious
Chapter 8: Sweet dreams: Desserts from manju to mochi ice cream with a side
trip to Hawaii
Chapter 9: Nomimono: Soft drinks, hard drinks and tea, lots of tea
Chapter 10: The real deal, Next on the menu, Fame and foodies
Glossary
Online Resources
Book List