{"id":30913,"date":"2013-07-10T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30913"},"modified":"2013-07-10T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:43:40","slug":"around-japan-in-47-curries-toyama-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/10\/around-japan-in-47-curries-toyama-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Japan in 47 Curries: Toyama water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Baker<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.chiba.lg.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chiba,<\/a> 1989-91) is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">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 eighth installment, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.toyama.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toyama Prefecture<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30960\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aa-water3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30960\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30960  \" alt=\"Tom Baker samples water from a spring above Kurobe Dam in Toyama Prefecture.\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aa-water3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aa-water3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aa-water3.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Baker samples water from a spring above Kurobe Dam in Toyama Prefecture.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Kurobe River is short but steep. It runs only 85 kilometers from Mt. Washiba in Toyama Prefecture, but it falls nearly 3 kilometers over that distance. Where it empties into the Sea of Japan, it has created an alluvial fan where the town of Kurobe stands. Because of its steep fall, the river was a good candidate for a hydroelectric project. The Kurobe Dam, Japan\u2019s tallest at\u00a0186 meters, was built across it in a major postwar construction project from 1956 to 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Although most famous as the site of an engineering feat, the Kurobe River is also known for the quality of its water, especially the cold springs that bubble up in the coastal town of Kurobe after filtering through the alluvial fan. It\u2019s called Kurobe Meisui\u2014literally, Kurobe\u2019s famous water.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I tasted one of several varieties of Kurobe Meisui curry \u2013 a black \u201csoup curry\u201d made with the famous water&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/08\/around-japan-in-47-curries-toyama-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 eighth installment, about Toyama Prefecture. The Kurobe River is short but steep. It runs only 85 kilometers [&hellip;]<\/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_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":[70],"tags":[833,1054,249,731,1055],"class_list":["post-30913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-curry","tag-kurobe","tag-tom-baker","tag-toyama","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-82B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30964,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions\/30964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}