{"id":31937,"date":"2013-09-20T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=31937"},"modified":"2013-09-20T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T00:14:16","slug":"around-japan-in-47-curries-yamanashi-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/20\/around-japan-in-47-curries-yamanashi-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Around Japan in 47 Curries: Yamanashi Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yamanashi-fruit-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32059\" alt=\"Yamanashi fruit 001\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yamanashi-fruit-001-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yamanashi-fruit-001-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yamanashi-fruit-001-1024x708.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Baker<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chibaajet.wordpress.com\/\" 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 almost every week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his 14th installment,\u00a0in which he\u00a0explores whether or not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.yamanashi.jp\/english\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yamanashi Prefecture <\/a>fruit is a good curry ingredient:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Grapes and wine are Yamanashi\u2019s most famous products. The cultivation of grapes dates back about 1,300 years, apparently beginning with a monk who had a vision of Buddha holding a bunch of them. Wine production didn\u2019t get started until the 1868-1912 Meiji era, but there are now more than 80 wineries in the prefecture, making about 40 percent of Japan\u2019s domestic wine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the prefecture was No. 1 in grape production, at 51,400 tons, well ahead of second-place Nagano with 30,700. It was also first in peaches (54,100 tons, ahead of then second-place Fukushima at 27,800) and plums (6,660, ahead of second-place Wakayama at 3,280).<\/p>\n<p>While driving through Yamanashi Prefecture a couple of weeks ago, I picked up some grape and peach curries at a highway rest stop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/16\/around-japan-in-47-curries-yamanashi-fruit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more HERE<\/a>.<\/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 almost every week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his 14th installment,\u00a0in which he\u00a0explores whether or not Yamanashi Prefecture fruit is a good curry ingredient: Grapes and [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8j7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937","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=31937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32060,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937\/revisions\/32060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}