{"id":28907,"date":"2013-02-12T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=28907"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T04:03:44","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-deeply-ingrained-advantages-american-media-discovers-kyushoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/12\/ill-make-it-myself-deeply-ingrained-advantages-american-media-discovers-kyushoku\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make It Myself: \u201cDeeply Ingrained Advantages\u201d: American Media Discovers Ky\u00fbshoku"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller\u00a0<\/strong>(CIR\u00a0Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0A writer and web administrator for\u00a0<\/em>The Art of Travel<\/strong><\/a>, ze also writes\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates\u00a0The\u00a0Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan, and\u00a0The JET Alumni Culinary Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in LinkedIn.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to\u00a0jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Can Japan solve America\u2019s food identity crisis? Japan\u2019s relatively low rates of obesity have caught the eye of the American news media, particularly in light of our own new\u00a0government controls on junk food<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0measures intended to prevent childhood obesity<\/a>. In January,\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>ran the article\u00a0\u201cOn Japan\u2019s school lunch menu: A healthy meal, made from scratch\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Chico Harlan; NPR followed up article\/radio segment on\u00a0bento<\/em>\u00a0called\u00a0\u201cIn Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by Audrey Carlsen and Daniel N.M. Turner, featuring a radio interview for\u00a0All Things Considered<\/em>\u00a0with host Audie Cornish and author Debra Samuels.<\/p>\n

While it is true that the content and presentation of Japanese school lunches (ky\u00fbshoku<\/em>, \u7d66\u98df) and boxed lunches (bento<\/em>) are quite different from their stereotypical American counterparts, both articles oversimplified the topics. I\u2019d like to focus on each article separately as my criticism for each deals with distinct rather than overlapping issues. First, I\u2019d like to discuss\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0piece\u2019s failure to address some of the negative aspects of the Japanese diet, and, in a separate post, how the NPR piece misses the mark on the \u201ccute\u201d issue and ignores the gendered social issues behind the\u00a0bento<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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L.M. Zoller\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight.\u00a0A writer and web administrator for\u00a0The Art of Travel, ze also writes\u00a0I\u2019ll Make It Myself!,\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates\u00a0The\u00a0Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[870,872,873,1397,412,867,871,868,869],"class_list":["post-28907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-bento","tag-food-blog","tag-food-culture","tag-ill-make-it-myself","tag-japanese-food","tag-kyushoku","tag-obesity","tag-school-lunch","tag-washington-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t