{"id":37440,"date":"2015-03-10T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=37440"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T04:38:10","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/10\/ill-make-it-myself-add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: Add a Dash of Cultural Imperialism: Japanese Food and Cooking (1956), Part 3"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9781462902408_p0_v2_s260x420-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37434 alignright\" 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><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 3 on a series about Stuart Griffin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2015\/02\/19\/add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-1\/\"><em>Japanese Food and Cooking<\/em> (1956)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ch. 2: Rice Dishes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141412\">Griffin\u2019s writing style reminds me of culinary gaslighting. He bounces between extolling the deliciousness of Japanese food and calling it gross; he urges his fellow expats (or, rather, their wives) to keep an open mind and expand their palates while simultaneously telling them that foreigners don\u2019t like this food or that food, implying that American cuisine is normal and Japanese cuisine is a curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2015\/03\/01\/add-a-dash-of-cultural-imperialism-japanese-food-and-cooking-1956-part-3\/\"><strong>Click HERE to read MORE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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":[1335,1338,1337],"class_list":["post-37440","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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440","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=37440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42890,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions\/42890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}