{"id":30959,"date":"2013-07-15T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30959"},"modified":"2013-07-15T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T22:57:11","slug":"around-japan-in-47-curries-iwate-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/15\/around-japan-in-47-curries-iwate-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Japan in 47 curries: Iwate cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Baker <\/em><\/a>(Chiba,<\/a> 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 ninth installment, about Iwate Prefecture.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Choshu Five in London, with Masaru Inoue at center (Public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

When I first came to Japan, I found some Koiwai cheese in a supermarket and mistook it for an American product. After all, Kiowa \u2013 as I initially misread the name \u2013 has an American ring. (The Kiowa are a Native American tribe<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

However, I now know the history of Koiwai cheese \u2013 and its unusual name \u2013 goes all the way back to the adventures of the Choshu Five<\/a>, a group of young men who secretly left Japan in 1863 to study in Britain. After their return, they became leading figures in the country\u2019s rapid modernization. One of them, Masaru Inoue<\/a>, is remembered as \u201cthe father of the Japanese railways.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1888, Inoue visited Iwate to inspect the progress of railway construction there. According to the Koiwai website<\/a>, the volcanic soil and barren-looking windswept terrain struck him as a promising area for ranching…<\/p>\n

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

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