{"id":30912,"date":"2013-07-08T07:54:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30912"},"modified":"2013-07-08T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:54:52","slug":"shizuoka-sardine-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/08\/shizuoka-sardine-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Shizuoka sardine curry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker<\/a> (Chiba, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog<\/a>, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his seventh installment, about Shizuoka Prefecture<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Iwashi<\/a>Shizuoka Prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, includes Japan\u2019s highest point (the 3,776-meter summit of Mt. Fuji) and its deepest bay (the 2,500-meter deep Suruga Bay), for a total altitude difference of 6.2 kilometers (just shy of four miles). And the Shizuoka curry I sampled this week had a very Japanese flavor: umami.<\/p>\n

In case the word umami is new to you, here\u2019s the basic concept: Humans enjoy eating salty things because we need a certain amount of salt to live, and we enjoy sweet things because natural sweetness indicates that a food contains readily available energy. Similarly, the flavor known as umami is appealing because it indicates that a food is protein-rich. Meat, seafood and cheese all have their own special kinds of deliciousness that cannot be characterized as sweet, salty, sour or bitter. That category of flavor is called umami.<\/p>\n

Read more HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his seventh installment, about Shizuoka Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, includes Japan\u2019s highest point (the 3,776-meter summit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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