{"id":37428,"date":"2015-03-07T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=37428"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:39:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T04:39:59","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/07\/ill-make-it-myself-add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: Add a Dash of Cultural Imperialism: Japanese Food and Cooking (1956), Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L.M. (CIR\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hot-ishikawa.jp\/f-lang\/english\/index.html\">Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0<strong style=\"color: #252525\"><a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"http:\/\/ishikawajet.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/07\/master-cooking-in-japan-with-the-ishikawa-kitchen\/\">The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #252525\">.<\/span><em style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;<\/em><em style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0writes\u00a0<\/em><a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/\"><strong>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #252525\">,<\/span><em style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/2012\/03\/18\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/rice-cooker-chronicles\/\"><strong>Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan; and admins\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #4574a3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?gid=4803196&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">The JET Alumni Culinary Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #252525\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9781462902408_p0_v2_s260x420-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-37434\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9781462902408_p0_v2_s260x420-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"9781462902408_p0_v2_s260x420-1\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9781462902408_p0_v2_s260x420-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9781462902408_p0_v2_s260x420-1.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My friends, knowing I love food history, gave me a copy of an English-language Japanese cookbook as a parting gift. It\u2019s been quite some time since I\u2019ve written about SCAP (Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers), the US presence in Occupied Japan from 1945-52. In grad school, I wrote about SCAP decrees regarding film, and the micro-management of Japanese media to \u201cpromote democracy.\u201d This is a bit of a different look\u2013not a government decree from above but a cookbook created by and for the post-Occupation (1956) expat who wants to make Japanese food at home in Japan. Griffin\u2019s cookbook is a very telling sociological text in that it captures the general colonialist attitudes of the expats toward Japan as an occupied nation and of gender norms (for both Japanese and American women). Additionally, the book provides insight into the introduction of Japanese cuisine to Americans and to the US through its explanations of ingredients and dishes as well as the translations of some of the terms used.<\/p>\n<p>Join me on this multi-part descent into the bowels of cultural imperialism in the kitchen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2015\/02\/19\/add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-1\/\"><strong>Click HERE to read MORE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.M. (CIR\u00a0Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight.\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;\u00a0writes\u00a0I\u2019ll Make It Myself!,\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0The\u00a0Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[1335,1337,1336],"class_list":["post-37428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-cookbook","tag-japanese-food-and-cooking","tag-sociology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9JG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42893,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions\/42893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}