{"id":23172,"date":"2012-01-10T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23172"},"modified":"2016-12-05T18:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:08:38","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-the-wrath-of-the-kitchen-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/10\/ill-make-it-myself-the-wrath-of-the-kitchen-god\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: &#8220;The Wrath of the Kitchen God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot-ishikawa.jp\/f-lang\/english\/index.html\">Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ishikawajet.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/07\/master-cooking-in-japan-with-the-ishikawa-kitchen\/\">The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.<em> A writer and web administrator for <\/em><strong>The Art of Japan: Kanazawa<\/strong><em> and <\/em><strong>Discover Kanazawa<\/strong><em>, ze also writes <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.wordpress.com\/\">I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/strong>,<em> a blog about food culture in Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While working on a translation about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justhungry.com\/everything-osechi-ryouri-japanese-new-years-feast-food-has-meaning-and-confession\"><em>osechi ry\u00f4ri<\/em><\/a>, the Japanese New Year&#8217;s meal, today, I came across a passage about how the meal is prepared in advance of the holidays to avoid using the cooking fire. From a practical standpoint, not having to cook while one&#8217;s extended family is visiting gives the primary household cook a chance to relax and spend time with the family. The other reason given is that using the kitchen fire during the year-end period makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/kitchen-gods.html\">K\u00f4jin (\u8352\u795e)<\/a> the Fire God angry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/img_0772.jpg?w=490&amp;h=367\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/09\/the-wrath-of-the-kitchen-god\/\">CLICK HERE to read the full post.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Japan: Kanazawa and Discover Kanazawa, ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan. 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