{"id":37438,"date":"2015-03-08T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=37438"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T04:38:49","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/08\/ill-make-it-myself-add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make It Myself!: Add a Dash of Cultural Imperialism: Japanese Food and Cooking (1956), Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. (CIR\u00a0Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;<\/em>\u00a0writes\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0The\u00a0Rice 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\u00a0The JET Alumni Culinary Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Part 2 of a series on culinary cultural imperialism in Stuart Griffin’s Japanese Food and Cooking<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet, in the fifth paragraph, he goes right back into making the sort of judgments that put people off trying new foods:<\/p>\n

Foreigners make wince at the first reading of the following paragraphs, but this a mistake correctable in the eating (1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While he\u2019s right that trying new foods prepared well is often the way to throw off squeamish assumptions about their perceived foreignness and potential unpleasantness, presenting these types of fish as \u201cthis is kinda gross but try it, you\u2019ll like it!\u201d a rather ineffectual way to go about it.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[1335,1338,1337],"class_list":["post-37438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-cookbook","tag-cultural-imperialism","tag-japanese-food-and-cooking"],"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