{"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’ll Make It Myself!: A Bento is Not As Big As the World"},"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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This is a companion piece to\u00a0\u201c\u2018Deeply Ingrained Advantages\u2019: American Media Discovers Ky\u00fbshoku.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0bento.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bento and the Cult of Cute<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the lead-in to Carlsen\u2019s and Turner\u2019s \u201cIn 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\u00a0kyaraben<\/em>\u00a0(character bento), and images of Anpanman in cartoon and pancake form.<\/p>\n

Click HERE to read more.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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":[870,771,908,910,859,911,1397,412,909,160],"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":[],"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