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Sabappuru サバップル　apple pie with saba mackerel meat Aomori

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Rice milk ライスミルク

Kamaboko Daruma かまぼこだるま

Sangaria サンガリア a drink for children

akamoku 鎌倉の新名産アカモク akamoku seaweed
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insutanto zooni インスタント雑煮 ready-made zoni soup
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Japanese Food ... Washoku 和食

"WASHOKU" is a term for the traditional Japanese cuisine, which usually includes Sashimi, Sushi, Tempura, fresh fish and a lot of seasonal vegetables.
It is sometimes also called "Nihonshoku" 日本食.
Considering the geographical position of Japan, it has a wide variety of regional specialities, form the North of Hokkaido to the subtropical cuisine of Okinawa.

Japanese kitchen, cooking Japanese, Japanese cuisine

I will try and show you the Japanese food culture in many aspects.

SHUN 旬の物 / 旬の味 Specialities of the Season

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Japanese cuisine has developed over the centuries as a result of many political and social changes. The cuisine eventually changed with the advent of the Medieval age which ushered in a shedding of elitism with the age of Shogun rule. In the early modern era massive changes took place that introduced Western culture to Japan.

The modern term "Japanese cuisine" (nihon ryōri, 日本料理 or washoku, 和食) means traditional-style Japanese food, similar to what already existed before the end of national seclusion in 1868. In a broader sense of the word, it could also include foods whose ingredients or cooking methods were subsequently introduced from abroad, but which have been developed by Japanese who made them their own. Japanese cuisine is known for its emphasis on seasonality of food (旬, shun), quality of ingredients and presentation.
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Japanese food -
a taste of home
in a winter night

Gabi Greve, Okayama, Japan 2005

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Japanese food !
the eyes are mightier than
the stomach

Nakayama Ishino, 中山石野, December 2006

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WASHOKU ... Seasonal Dishes 　

WASHOKU ... Regional Dishes from North to South 　

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WKD : Worldwide Food KIGO

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Japanese Food SAIJIKI

和食歳時記　　

Washoku 和食, the traditional food of Japan, is famous for being pleasant to the eye and quite healthy.
Japanisches Essen, ein Augenschmauss!

Click HERE to have a first good look at Japanese food !

Like a good haiku,
washoku is dependent on the four seasons
for fresh ingredients.

During the Heian period, food had not been the subject of poetry, but with haiku during the Edo period, all kinds of vegetables, fish dishes and especially the sweets for the tea ceremony, food became a popular topic for poetry, especially haiku.

Even the traditional sweets, wagashi (和菓子)
have a seasonal component to it.

Click HERE to have a first good look at Japanese sweets !

Many poems have been written about it ...

The Japanese food needs its own English saijiki：
和食歳時記!

The Haiku Gourmet
The Senryu Gourmet

Gabi Greve, December 2006

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Seasonal words used as kigo in Japanese haiku !

WASHOKU .. JAPANESE FOOD SAIJIKI
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Sweets from Japan (wagashi) 和菓子歳時記
The Japanese Sweets Saijiki

... Haiku Sweets haika 俳菓
Many tea sweets (chagashi 茶菓子) are named after famous short poems (waka 和歌　and tanka 短歌), but there are also some named after a famous haiku.

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Rice in a bottle to drink

ライスミルク rice milk

It contains the rice of about one onigiri riceball, ca. 50 g, in liquid form, for easy consumption in summer. One bottle contains 200 ml and has 140 kcal.

It comes in four flavors
味はプレーンとライチ、マンゴー、木いちご

plain (tasts a bit like amazake)
lychee
mango
strawberry

This drink can be used for a quick breakfast, for the elderly, for children, before or arfer sports, and so on.
If it becomes a hit, it might help reduce the stored rice of Japan.

木徳神糧株式会社 from Kitoku Shinryo Co.
source : www.kitoku-shinryo.co.jp

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namako 海鼠 sea cucumber, sea slug

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Winter
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Explanation

namako 海鼠 (なまこ) sea cucumber, sea slug
trepang, bêche-de-mer
family Holothuroidea

namako in vinegar, su namako 酢海鼠（すなまこ）
innards of namako, konowata 海鼠腸（このわた）
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..... konoko このこ, iriko 海参（いりこ）
..... iriko 熬海鼠（いりこ）
..... tawarago 俵子（たわらご）, kinko きんこ
..... torago とらご, toorago とうらご

fishing for namako, namako tsuki 海鼠突（なまこつき）
vendor of namako, namako uri 海鼠売（なまこうり）
boat for catching namako, namakobune 海鼠舟（なまこぶね）

Not to mix with the hoya, a summer kigo, see below.

namako su なまこ酢 namako salted namako in vinegar dressing
Usually sanbaizu 三杯酢 vinegar is used.

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"To supply the markets of Southern China, Macassan trepangers traded with the Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land. This Macassan contact with Australia is the first recorded example of trade between the inhabitants of the Australian continent and their Asian neighbours."

Some varieties of sea cucumber (known as gamat in Malaysia or trepang in Indonesia) are said to have excellent healing properties. There are pharmaceutical companies being built based on this gamat product. Extracts are prepared and made into oil, cream or cosmetics. Some products are intended to be taken internally. The effectiveness of sea cucumber extract in tissue repair has been the subject of serious study. It is believed that the sea cucumber contains all the fatty acids necessary to play an active role in tissue repair.

Sea cucumbers are believed to be endowed with aphrodisiac powers in the Far East. The reason for this belief is the peculiar reaction of the creature on being kneaded or disturbed slightly with fingers. It swells and stiffens and a jet of water is released from one end. This behaviour is similar to the erection and subsequent ejaculation of the male human penis. After releasing the jet, which is a defensive mechanism and contains irritants, the creature loses its stiffness and reverts to its original state.

Sea cucumbers have also inspired thousands of haiku in Japan, where they are called namako (海鼠), written with characters that can be translated "sea mice".

In English translations of these haiku, they are usually called "sea slugs"; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "sea slug" originally referred to holothurians (in the 18th century), though biologists now use the name only for the nudibranch molluscs, marine relatives of land slugs.
Almost 1,000 Japanese holothurian haiku translated into English appear in the book Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! by Robin D. Gill .
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- - - - - Yosa Buson and the Namako - - - - -

生海鼠にも鍼こゝろむる書生哉
namako ni mo hari kokoromuru shosei kana

intern doctors
even sea slugs serve for
needle practice
Tr. Robin D. Gill

大鼾そしればうごく生海鼠哉
oo-ibiki soshireba ugoku namako kana
(1768)

His loud snore
When grumbled about
Moves this sea cucumber.
Tr. Nelson/Saito

思ふ事いはぬさまなる生海鼠かな　
omou koto iwanu sama naru namako kana

it looks like
it cannot speak its mind
the sea slug
Tr. Robin D. Gill
- More translations by Robin D. Gill in facebook

あたまからふとんかぶればなまこかな　
atama kara futon kabureba namako kana

with the quilt
over your head: voila
a sea slug!　
Tr. Robin D. Gil
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. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

Buson uses the Chinese characters of the Edo period:

namako生海鼠 - where the first kanji represents the NAMA - raw food.
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. hoshi namako 干しなまこ dried namako, .
Sticbopus japonicus
kansoo namako　乾燥なまこ

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konowata海鼠腸（このわた）
most fames from Mikawa, Aichi prefecture.

They are taken from three kinds of sea cucumbers, the green, red and black one.
The fisherman's wife takes a razor, opens the side carefully and separates the body from the entrails, which are washed carefully. They are quite long and the contents are squeezed out.
The body of the sea cucumber is not thrown away, it can be grilled and eaten with sake too.

KO is the old name for namako, so this is the namako no wata.

gesalzene Eingeweide der Seegurke

This dish is one of the three favorite delicacies of Japan :
. Tenka no sandai chinmi 天下の三大珍味 .

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hoya 海鞘 (ほや, 老海鼠) sea squirt, ascidian
保夜（ほや）- ホヤ
hoya 老海鼠（ほや）the kanji mean "old namako"
Ascidiacea.

mahoya 真海鞘（まほや）
white hoya, shirohoya 白海鞘（しろほや）
red hoya, akahoya 赤海鞘（あかほや）
black hoya, kurohoya 黒海鞘（くろほや）
"craw hoya", karasu hoya 烏海鞘（からすほや）

..... not to mix with the namako 海鼠 (なまこ) .

ほやの酢の物 hoya no su no mono, vinegared hoya, speciality of Miyagi.
Seescheide, eine Art Seegurke.

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source :　hidougu/archives

red namako patterns from Shigaraki pottery
信楽赤海鼠

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なまこストラップ　namako strap　for the handy telephone or keyholder.

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生きながら一つに氷る海鼠哉
いきながらひとつにこほるなまこかな
iki nagara hitotsu ni kooru namako kana
iki-nagara hitotsu ni kooru namako kana

Still alive,
They are frozen in one lump:
Sea slugs
Tr. Makoto Ueda

Probably written in 元禄6年, Basho age 50. Collection 続別座敷.

still alive
but frozen into one,
this sea slug ...

this sea slug
is frozen into one
but still alive . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve

The hokku has the cut marker KANA at the end of line 3.
Written shortly before his death. It feels as if Basho is talking about himself.

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .

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一桶の氷にまじる海鼠かな
hito-oke no koori ni majiru namako kana

in one bucket
of ice there are some
sea cucumbers . . .

lit. "some sea cucumbers are mixed in a bucket full of ice"

. Hasegawa Kai 長谷川櫂　 .

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俎板の氷をぬめるなまこかな
太祇

引き汐のわすれて行きしなまこかな
蝶夢

憂きことを海月に語る海鼠かな
召波

魚市のとぼりて寒き海鼠かな
村上鬼城

ひつそりと海鼠の水に泡ふたつ
高田正子

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***** . namakokabe　なまこ壁　"namako walls" .

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Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規

Sushi a la Matsuyama松山寿司

When Natsume Soseki came to visit Masaoka Shiki in Matsuyma in 1892, Shiki's mother Yae prepared the dish for them. Takahama Kyoshi, who happened to be there too, wrote about this meeting, describing Soseki sitting in his western suit on the cushion, trying to eat carefully so as not to soil his suit and the floor and finishing every little grain of rice.

ふるさとや親すこやかに鮓の味
furusato ya oya sukoyaka ni sushi no aji

my dear hometown -
my mother is well and
the taste of sushi

われに法あり君をもてなすもぶり鮓
ware ni hoo ari kimi o motenasu moburi sushi

here is the law
when entertaining you -
our mixed sushi

われ愛すわが豫州松山の鮓
ware aisu waga Yoshuu Matsuyama no sushi

I love my hometown
in the province of Iyo -
Matsuyama sushi

(Yoshuu is an old name for Iyo no kuni　伊予の国.)

. Matsuyama sushi 松山鮓 and Masaoka Shiki in Ehime 　

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ankoo ni ichizen meshi no andon kana
. anko　鮟鱇 angler fish .

haru oshimu yado ya Nihon no toofujiru
Tofu　豆腐　bean curd
Japan is the best for tofu soup !

hio yasete tsuki no shizuku to tokenu beshi
Hio 氷魚 saffron cod

柿くへば鐘が鳴るなり法隆寺　
. kaki kueba kane ga naru nari Hooryuuji .
Persimmons, his favorite food !

manaita ni uroko chirishiku sakuradai
. Sakuradai 桜鯛　cherry sea bream .
and the kitchen knife

omoshiro ya tsuki ni sanshoo no kawa hageba　
Sanshoo 　山椒　mountain pepper 　

omoshiro ya mate no iru ana iranu ana
Mategai 馬刀 razor shell - Solen gouldi

shigururu ya konnyaku hiete heso no ue
. Konnyaku 蒟蒻 konjak, Devil's-tongue - Amorphophallus rivieri .

shinshuu no samusa o omou sobayu kana
Soba Buckwheat noodles そば　蕎麦　from Shinshu

tonari sumu hinshi ni mochi o wakachi-keri
. Mochi 餅　rice cakes .

yama wa kaze no hiyatsuku himuro kana
himuro 氷室　Ice cellars in Japan

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WASHOKU - Food Haiku and Masaoka Shiki

. WKD : Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規 .

. WKD - Cultural Keywords used by Shiki .

. WKD : ABC-List of his works .

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Akiyama Tokukzo 秋山徳蔵 cook for the Tenno
(1888 - 1974)

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Cooks and Other People
edited by Harlan Walker
Manyoken's first chef was Akiyama Tokuzo, who came to the restaurant from the Kyoto palace, having studied French cooking in France.
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Shita
Tenno No Ryori Ban Ga Kataru Ki Shoku Chinmi

Aji
Tenno No Ryori Ban Ga Kataru Showa

source :　www.cdjapan.co.jp/ebooks

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NHK historia

宮廷料理の舞台裏にようこそ
～天皇の料理番　秋山徳蔵～

- source : www.nhk.or.jp/historia

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Functional Foods

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A functional food is a food given an additional function (often one related to health-promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients.

The general category of functional foods includes processed food or foods fortified with health-promoting additives, like "vitamin-enriched" products. Products considered functional generally do not include products where fortification has been done to meet government regulations and the change is not recorded on the label as a significant addition ("invisible fortification"). An example of this type of fortification would be the historic addition of iodine to table salt, or Vitamin D to milk, done to resolve public health problems such as rickets. Fermented foods with live cultures are considered functional foods with probiotic benefits.

Functional foods are part of the continuum of products that individuals may consume to increase their health and/or contribute to reducing their disease burden.

Functional foods are an emerging field in food science due to their increasing popularity with health-conscious consumers and the ability of marketers to create new interest in existing products.

The term was first used in Japan in the 1980s where there is a government approval process for functional foods called
Foods for Specified Health Use (FOSHU).
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Food for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU)
FOSHU refers to foods containing ingredient with functions for health and officially approved to claim its physiological effects on the human body. FOSHU is intended to be consumed for the maintenance / promotion of health or special health uses by people who wish to control health conditions, including blood pressure or blood cholesterol. In order to sell a food as FOSHU, the assessment for the safety of the food and effectiveness of the functions for health is required, and the claim must be approved by the MHLW.

Seal for FOSHU Approval 特定保健用食品

Requirements for FOSHU Approval • Effectiveness on the human body is clearly proven
• Absence of any safety issues (animal toxicity tests, confirmation of effects in the cases of excess intake, etc.)
• Use of nutritionally appropriate ingredients (e.g. no excessive use of salt, etc.)
• Guarantee of compatibility with product specifications by the time of consumption
• Established quality control methods, such as specifications of products and ingredients, processes, and methods of analysis

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Farmers to focus on fighting fat in face of tariff cuts
From rice for controlling blood glucose levels to soybeans that reduce fatty acids, the government is seeking new ways to make money from agriculture as pressure mounts to cut the tariffs that farmers rely on to make a living.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration estimates that there is a potential ¥600 billion market for so-called functional foods, strains of fruits, vegetables and grains with provable health benefits beyond regular nutrition. He’s put ¥2 billion into the agriculture ministry’s coffers for a three-year project to develop new varieties of rice, soybeans, barley, onions and buckwheat.
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Abe is pursuing a place in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact while OECD data show the nation’s farmers depend on government handouts for more than half their income, versus 7 percent in the U.S.

“If we succeed in creating a market for functional foods in Japan, we’ll be able to expand the business to other Asian countries that sooner or later face the same aging problem as us,” Nakatani said in an interview Thursday. “Enhanced health benefits from these products should ultimately appeal to consumers worldwide.”

The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, an affiliate to the ministry, is working on a new strain of soybeans with elevated levels of beta-conglycinin, a soy storage protein that can reduce free fatty acids in the liver that contribute to risks for cardiovascular disease and diabetes, Nakatani said.

The first crops will be planted in Nagano Prefecture, renowned for miso soup stock made from soybeans. Japanese production of the oilseed rose 8 percent to 235,900 tons last year, while imports fell 3.7 percent to 2.73 million tons, according to data from the farm ministry.

Rice with a higher than normal amount of amylose, a component of starch with the potential to curb blood glucose levels, will appeal to people who want to reduce their weight, according to Nakatani. Planting may begin as early as 2016 in Niigata Prefecture, the nation’s second-largest rice producer.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership - TPP

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The 2005 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4) is a free trade agreement among Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore. It aims to further liberalise the economies of the Asia-Pacific region.

Since 2010, negotiations have been taking place for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposal for a significantly expanded version of TPSEP. The TPP is a proposed free trade agreement under negotiation by (as of August 2013) Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.

The TPP is ostensibly intended to be a "high-standard" agreement specifically aimed at emerging trade issues in the 21st century. These ongoing negotiations have drawn criticism and protest from the public, advocacy groups, and elected officials, in part due to the secrecy of the negotiations, the expansive scope of the agreement, and a number of controversial clauses in drafts leaked to the public.

Japan joined as an observer in the TPP discussions that took place 13–14 November 2010, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Yokohama. Japan declared its intent to join the TPP negotiations on 13 March 2013 and an official announcement was made by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe on 15 March 2013 . The TPP formally invited Japan to enter negotiations in April, and Japan could become a full negotiating partner in August 2013.
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Four TPP members offer to kill all tariffs
Four of the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative are offering the other members total tariff elimination on all agricultural and industrial goods, a source close to the talks said.

The move by Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Chile is likely to put pressure on Japan, the second-largest of the 12 TPP economies, to open up its politically sensitive agricultural market, the source said Friday.
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For Japan, which joined the talks in late July but didn’t take part in the tariff negotiations until last month’s round in Brunei, the sessions in Washington were expected to provide further chances for Tokyo to retain tariffs on sensitive farm products, Japanese officials said.

Tokyo is facing strong domestic pressure
to protect sugar, rice, wheat, beef and pork, dairy and other farm products because farmers fear that an influx of cheap imports will devastate the nation’s agricultural sector.
- source : Japan Times, September 2013

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From rice for controlling blood glucose levels to soybeans that reduce fatty acids, the government is seeking new ways to make money from agriculture as pressure mounts to cut the tariffs that farmers rely on to make a living.
. Functional Foods .
Food for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU)

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accessory

October 29, 2013, 10:00 pm

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accessory アクセサリー

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A fashion accessory is an item which is used to contribute, in a secondary manner, to the wearer's outfit. The term came into use in the 19th century. Accessories are often used to complete an outfit and are chosen to specifically complement the wearer's look.
Jewelry is a major subcategory, including rings, cufflinks, tie tacks, necklaces, bracelets, aigrettes, lapel pins, and other wearable adornments. Semi-permanent jewelry includes some earrings and nose rings, as well as lip plugs, earlobe plugs which can also be referred to as ear gauges, and other items used with more exotic body modifications.
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November 7, 2013, 4:24 pm

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temae miso 手前味噌 home-made miso paste

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Make and learn about miso from a master
Miso, Japan’s traditional seasoning made from fermenting rice, soybeans and other flavorings, sounds like a cooking ingredient too complex to prepare yourself. But if you’re curious, on Nov. 9 you can learn how to make miso paste at a special event at the Gender Equality Center in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward.

From 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., a master of miso-making from Kojiya Saburoemon, one of Tokyo’s oldest miso manufacturers, will offer expert instructions and advice. Kojiya takes pride in its traditional miso making and only uses domestically produced rice as well as the finest koji-mold spores. The class aims to teach participants why the seasoning tastes best when made this way, and the master will give a lecture on the history of miso, including information on its health benefits.
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My Father's Temae Miso / 父の手前味噌

The word temae (lit. hand + before/in front of)
has a number of meanings. It can be used to refer to the first person (and even the second person in some situations). Thus, temae miso literally means my/our miso, but it actually means self-praise, because almost everyone wants to boast of the miso they make themselves.
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- source : www.amazon.co.jp
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鴫焼きや家族菜園手前味噌
shigiyaki ya katei saien temae miso

fried eggplants -
our family vegetable garden
and home-made miso

Nakamura Atsuko 中村温子

. shigiyaki 鴫焼 grilled eggplants .
kigo for late summer

shigi 鴫 snipe.
The dish is prepared in the shape of a shigi bird.

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. Miso paste and soup .

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kinkatsu 菌活 active bacteria

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Japanese mushroom commercial with erotic overtones nears 3 million hits on YouTube

In Japan, Hokto is to mushrooms what Chiquita is to bananas: a household name that people know but aren’t overly excited by – until now!

The mushroom growers have been releasing an increasingly sexy line of commercials that seem to get pulled from the airwaves soon after debuting. The latest one, titled “Splendid Mushroom Kinkatsu,” depicts a love affair between actors Jun Kaname in the role of the spirit of mushrooms and Sawa Suzuki as the middle-aged woman he continuously haunts and seductively whispers about mushrooms to. As far as mushrooms go, this is pretty hot.

- source : en.rocketnews24.com　

- source : Hokto Kinkatsu no Susume

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Recipes with mushrooms
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Yoghurt is one of the best food items to invigurate your internal bacteria.

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からだがよろこぶ!菌活レシピ recipes for kinkatsu food

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. WKD : kinoko, ki no ko, take 茸, 菌 .

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daizuko - soybean flour

November 10, 2013, 5:13 pm

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daizuko 大豆粉 soybean flour, soy flour

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The beans can be processed in a variety of ways. Common forms of soy (or soya) include soy meal, soy flour, soy milk, tofu, textured vegetable protein (TVP, which is made into a wide variety of vegetarian foods, some of them intended to imitate meat), tempeh, soy lecithin and soybean oil.
Soybeans are also the primary ingredient involved in the production of soy sauce (shoyu).

Soy flour refers to soybeans ground finely enough to pass through a 100-mesh or smaller screen where special care was taken during desolventizing (not toasted) to minimize denaturation of the protein to retain a high protein dispersibility index, for uses such as food extrusion of textured vegetable protein. It is the starting material for production of soy concentrate and soy protein isolate.

Soy flour is made by roasting the soybean, removing the coat, and grinding into a flour. Soy flour is manufactured with different fat levels.

Defatted soy flour is obtained from solvent extracted flakes, and contains less than 1% oil.
"Natural or full-fat soy flour is made from unextracted, dehulled beans, and contains about 18% to 20% oil." Its high oil content requires the use of a specialized Alpine Fine Impact Mill to grind rather than the usual hammer mill. Full-fat soy flour has a lower protein concentration then defatted flour.
Low-fat soy flour is made by adding some oil back into defatted soy flour. Fat levels range from 4.5% to 9%.
Soy lecithin can be added (up to 15%) to soy flour to make lecithinated soy flour. It increases dispersibility and gives it emulsifying properties.
Soy flour has 50% protein and 5% fiber. It has higher levels of protein, thiamine, riboflavin, phosphorus, calcium, and iron than wheat flour. It does not contain gluten. As a result, yeast-raised breads made with soy flour are dense in texture. Among many uses, soy flour thickens sauces, prevents staling in baked food, and reduces oil absorption during frying. Baking food with soy flour gives it tenderness, moistness, a rich color, and a fine texture.
Soy grits are similar to soy flour except the soybeans have been toasted and cracked into coarse pieces.
Kinako is a soy flour used in Japanese cuisine.
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daizu udon　大豆うどん Udon noodles with soybean flour

. WKD : daizu 小豆 soy beans .

. kinako　黄な粉 "yellow flour" from roasted soy beans .

The latest fad is now flour from soybeans for noodles and baking.

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daizu men　大豆麺　soybean noodles
noodles made from percent soybean flour. They have less sugar than normal Chinese noodles, less calories and more fibers, so they are good for your diet.

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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. - SoyCarat snacks
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Kuriyama snacks with soybean flour

Kuriyama Beika Co. 栗山米菓 in Niigata
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scones from soybean flour, prepared in a home bakery

Sugar is reduced by about 60 percent, but the isoflavones are available.

Panasonic Corp.
source : panasonic.jp/bakery

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inoshishi 猪 wild boar 2013

Botannabe 牡丹鍋 (ぼたんなべ) Wild boar stew
lit. "peony stew".
shishinabe 猪鍋（ししなべ）、inoshishinabe いのしし鍋
"whale of the mountain", yamakujira 山鯨（やまくじら）
kigo for winter

Wildschwein-Eintopf

. WKD : Wild Boar (inoshishi　猪) .

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Wild boars have become a huge problem in many regions of Japan, some even come down to Kobe city and roam the streets, hurting people, destroying crops . . .

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Deer a pest said best served as local delicacy
To reduce the damage done to the environment by birds and other animals, major security company Alsok began a monitoring service this summer in which people helping hunters are notified by email when something lands in their traps.
Certified hunters have been setting traps to catch boar, deer and other pesky animals and then selling the trapped animals, but checking the traps is usually done by local residents.
Securing such manpower is not easy in mountainous areas, where young people are scarce.

Alsok began selling a monitoring device Aug. 1 that sends an email to nearby residents when an animal is ensnared.
“We thought the sensor technology we developed in our security business would be useful for vermin control,” Kiichi Fukuda of Alsok said.

. . . Wild boar is considered a delicacy and the meat is often sold to high-class restaurants.
Not so with venison, however. Only 20 to 30 percent of deer meat makes it to human dinner tables, according to estimates.

. . . Hideharu Ishizaki, who operates the Ezo Shi Cafe in the Sangenjaya district in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, said deer from Hokkaido have more meat than their Honshu counterparts.
Some 10 to 15 kg of meat can be utilized for food from a Honshu deer, whereas the typical Hokkaido deer yields 25 to 40 kg. This makes the meat of Hokkaido deer, which can regularly be found in supermarkets across the prefecture, about ¥1,000 cheaper per kilogram.

. . . Based in Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, Tanba Hime Momiji processes and sells deer meat. President Masao Yanagawase . . . Masahito Yamazaki, director of Mitaya Sohonke, which processes and sells high-quality meat, including ham and sausage, joined Yanagawase and Maekawa in their mission to promote venison . . . In addition, Maekawa founded EG Cycle, which makes and sells dog food containing venison.

. . . Advance Co., which operates a chain of restaurants in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, began offering deer curry for ¥880, more expensive than regular curry, in May 2010.
Advance is a franchisee of curry restaurant chain CoCo Ichibanya.

. . . the nonprofit organization Companions in Metasequoia Forest, which promotes outdoor activities in Gujo, Gifu Prefecture, . . .Go Nagayoshi of the NPO

. . . Inoshikacho uses the meat from these animals to make jerky

. . . Mari Hayashi operates the Ai deer cooking school in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture,

. . . “We should create groups of experts who can do everything from hunting to forest management,” Gifu University professor Masatsugu Suzuki said.
- source : www.japantimes.co.jp

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ALSOKの鹿・イノシシ・高級作物対策
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Ezo Shi Cafe エゾシカフェってなんですか？
- source : ezoshicafe.q-easy.jp

Tanba Hime Momiji - 丹波鹿 - 丹波姫もみじ
- source : tanba2005.co.jp

Advance Co - Curry and Smile Co. アドバンス鹿カレー物語
- source : group-adv.com

Coco Ichibanya
- source : ichibanya.co.jp

InoShika MetaMori メタセコイアの森
- source : musublog.jp/blog/metamori

InoShikaChoo ジビエ料理「猪鹿鳥料理」
- source : ino-shika-cho.jp

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November 11, 2013, 9:03 pm

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B-1 Grand Prix - Aichi

Ｂ-１グランプリin豊川

- source : toyokawa.b-1grandprix.com

Namie Yakisoba Taikoku 浪江焼麺太国

Towada 十和田バラ焼きゼミナール

熱血！！勝浦タンタンメン船団

第５位　久慈まめぶ部屋　　岩手県久慈市

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Namie evacuees bag food trophy

NAGOYA – Fried noodles served up by nuclear evacuees of the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, won first prize in this year’s low-price popular food contest B-1 Grand Prix held in the city of Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, over the weekend.

The Namie team, whose members had to flee their town at the March 2011 start of the meltdown crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, served Namie “yakisoba” fried noodles in the contest, the eighth to be held so far.
It was the first time for Namie residents to win the competition, although the group has taken part in the event three times before.

Second prize went to a group representing the city of Towada in Aomori Prefecture. The group, which served Towada “barayaki” — beef flanks grilled on a hot plate with onions seasoned with a spicy-sweet soy-based sauce — is comprised of volunteers and was established in 2008 to help revitalize the city.

Third prize, meanwhile, went to a group from the city of Katsuura in Chiba Prefecture that served “tan tan men” spicy Chinese-style boiled noodles.

“Mamebu-jiru” soup was a local specialty offered by people from Kuji, in Iwate Prefecture.
The offering enabled the city, badly damaged by the March 11, 201 tsunami, to place fifth.

Namie yakisoba owes its flavor to the thick pan-fried noodles resembling “udon,” a type of thick wheat noodle, served with pork and bean sprouts doused in Worcestershire sauce.

“Everyone, what happens to Fukushima is not always bad,” said Sadayuki Yashima, giving cheer to people in Fukushima, while the 45-year-old leader of the group from Namie received the chopstick-shaped trophy.

A record number of 64 groups participated in this year’s contest.
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B-1 Grand Prix is "selling each town" instead of only providing foods.
The exhibitors is not the restaurant cooks, but they are the groups developing the some projects at each town. Members of groups will not only provide some local foods but also be walking with each original character, based on their historic, playing some instrument music and playing a part.

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Namie Yakisoba Taikoku浪江焼麺太国

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Rito Keizai Shimbun - Island News

The Archipelago News

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ritoo keizai shinbun 離島経済新聞

- source : http://ritokei.com/

代表　鯨本あつこ - Isamoto Atsuko
役員　大久保昌宏
小山田サトル
黒崎輝男

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Isamoto Atsuko introduced islands, especially their food specialities.

Dishes from Amami Oshima
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nanchatte raamen なんちゃってラーメン sweet "noodle soup"

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A confectionery store in suburban Saitama is generating a buzz thanks to its uniquely deceiving assortment of sweets.

One of them is the “Nanchatte ramen,” which can translate roughly as “fake ramen noodle.” The name sounds like a Chinese dish, but in reality it’s a cake — that looks exactly like ramen.

“I wanted to create sweets more amusing and with more impact for customers,” explained Hiromichi Iino, president of the Japanese and Western confectionery store Baigetsudo in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture.

The store was founded in 1897 and sells traditional Japanese confectionery, including “monaka,” a treat with adzuki bean jam filling sandwiched between two wafers.
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For the finishing touch, several items made from “nerikiri” bean paste are placed on the surface of the “broth” to substitute for common ramen toppings, including “char siu” pork and “menma” lactate-fermented bamboo shoots, while pistachios stand in for green onions, Iino said.

The hard part about creating this dish was finding an appropriate combination of ingredients to ensure it tasted good, Iino said.
- source : www.japantimes.co.jp/news

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なんちゃってラーメン

トトロにそっくりのケーキ
cakes like Tottoro and many more
- source : entabe.jp/news

. Wagashi　和菓子 sweets from Japan .

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***** . Raamen, Ramen, ラーメン Chinese noodle soup .

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