{"id":29439,"date":"2013-03-21T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=29439"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:52:09","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-a-bento-is-not-as-big-as-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/21\/ill-make-it-myself-a-bento-is-not-as-big-as-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: A Bento is Not As Big As the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>L.M. Zoller\u00a0<\/strong>(CIR\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot-ishikawa.jp\/f-lang\/english\/index.html\">Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0<\/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>\u00a0A writer and web administrator for\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theartoftravel.net\/\"><strong>The Art of Travel<\/strong><\/a><em>, ze also writes\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/\"><strong>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a>,<em>\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/2012\/03\/18\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/rice-cooker-chronicles\/\"><strong>Rice 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\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=4803196&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">The JET Alumni Culinary Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in LinkedIn.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to\u00a0<strong>jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a companion piece to\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cDeeply Ingrained Advantages\u201d: American Media Discovers Ky\u00fbshoku\" href=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/2013\/02\/07\/deeply-ingrained-advantages-american-media-discovers-kyushoku\/\">\u201c\u2018Deeply Ingrained Advantages\u2019: American Media Discovers Ky\u00fbshoku.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the same time as Japan\u2019s school lunch programs got picked up by the media, there was a burst of articles about Japan\u2019s other distinctive lunch: the\u00a0<em>bento.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bento and the Cult of Cute<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/2013\/03\/19\/a-bento-is-not-as-big-as-the-world\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_0950-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-in to Carlsen\u2019s and Turner\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2013\/02\/04\/170583365\/in-japan-food-can-be-almost-too-cute-to-eat\">In Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat<\/a>,\u201d there is a slideshow showcasing the cuter side of Japanese food: tofu character goods, a\u00a0<em>kyaraben<\/em>\u00a0(character bento), and images of Anpanman in cartoon and pancake form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illmakeitmyself.net\/2013\/03\/19\/a-bento-is-not-as-big-as-the-world\/\"><em><strong>Click HERE to read more.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[870,771,908,910,859,911,1397,412,909,160],"class_list":["post-29439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-bento","tag-culture","tag-cute","tag-femininism","tag-food-and-drink","tag-gender","tag-ill-make-it-myself","tag-japanese-food","tag-npr","tag-super-cuteness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7EP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42790,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions\/42790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}