{"id":31813,"date":"2013-09-09T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=31813"},"modified":"2013-09-09T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T22:26:15","slug":"around-japan-in-47-curries-tottori-nashi-pear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/09\/around-japan-in-47-curries-tottori-nashi-pear\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Japan in 47 Curries: Tottori nashi pear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker<\/a> (Chiba<\/a>, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog<\/a>, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture almost every week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his 13th installment,\u00a0in which he\u00a0reveals that Tottori Prefecture <\/a>nashi pear curry has a cinematic connection:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"nashiplatemarked4\"<\/a>In 1990, I went to the theater to see the movie \u201cGhost.\u201d Patrick Swayze plays a murder victim, and Demi Moore plays his grieving girlfriend. The villain who arranged the murder wants to find out how much she knows, so he sets out to seduce her. In the most shocking scene I saw on film that year, the actor Tony Goldwyn pulled out a crumpled paper bag and presented Demi Moore with some delectable \u201cJapanese apple pears\u201d \u2013 a rare, expensive and little-known treat in America, a gift meant to show his generosity and savoir-faire.<\/p>\n

I was aghast. My beloved nashi had been introduced to the American public at last \u2013 but as a tool of seduction in the hands of a cold-blooded killer. Oh, the injustice! They might as well have taken those pears, chopped them into tiny pieces and made them into curry!<\/p>\n

Well, 23 years later, I have learned that someone did just that.<\/p>\n

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

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 almost every week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his 13th installment,\u00a0in which he\u00a0reveals that Tottori Prefecture nashi pear curry has a cinematic connection: In 1990, I […]<\/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":[70,6],"tags":[1021,833,1091,940,1092],"class_list":["post-31813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-writers","tag-around-japan-in-47-curries","tag-curry","tag-nashi","tag-pear","tag-tottori"],"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