{"id":31471,"date":"2013-08-15T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=31471"},"modified":"2013-08-15T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T21:38:31","slug":"around-japan-in-47-curries-horse-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/15\/around-japan-in-47-curries-horse-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Japan in 47 Curries: Horse Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Baker <\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiba_Prefecture\" target=\"_blank\">Chiba<\/a>, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part 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\u00a0almost every\u00a0week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his 11th installment, about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kumamoto Prefecture<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Horse-curry-box-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31475\" alt=\"Horse curry box 001\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Horse-curry-box-001-239x300.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Horse-curry-box-001-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Horse-curry-box-001-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Horse-curry-box-001.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve eaten basashi at izakayas a few times over the years, dipping slices of\u00a0raw horse\u00a0meat in soy sauce with grated ginger. Perhaps I haven\u2019t gone to the right places, but I\u2019ve found the meat to be overly chewy and not memorably flavorful. It\u2019s not at all unpleasant, but it struck me as being in the category of things one eats just to say one has eaten them.<\/p>\n<p>However, the horse meat curry I tried a few days ago was\u00a0much nicer than that. It included chunks of what I would consider good stew meat \u2013 soft and just slightly stringy, easy to break up with the edge of a spoon. Some of the meat had little bits of tendon attached, with the collagen softened by long cooking. (I was content with the quantitiy of meat I got, but it was nothing like the generous mountain shown in the photo on the box.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/03\/around-japan-in-47-curries-kumamoto-horse-meat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture\u00a0almost every\u00a0week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his 11th installment, about\u00a0Kumamoto Prefecture. I\u2019ve eaten basashi at izakayas a few times over the years, dipping slices of\u00a0raw horse\u00a0meat [&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":[1021,1084,833,1082,1083],"class_list":["post-31471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-around-japan-in-47-curries","tag-basashi","tag-curry","tag-horse-meat","tag-kumamoto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471","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=31471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31478,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471\/revisions\/31478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}