A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients & Culture - Softcover

Hosking, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804820422 ISBN 13: 9780804820424

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

At last, what every Westerner in a Japanese restaurant or market needs: the first truly comprehensive dictionary of Japanese food and ingredients. Standard dictionaries can often mislead us--with akebia for akebi, sea cucumber for namako, plum for ume. Hosking's dictionary includes not only dishes and ingredients, everything from the delicate mitsuba leaf to the dreadful okoze fish: colorful appendices disclose such aspects of Japanese culture as the making of miso to the tea ceremony and the influence of vegetarianism.

With Japanese-English and English-Japanese sections, A Dictionary of Japanese Food explains the nuances and eliminates the mysteries of Japanese food.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The book consists of a Japanese-English section, an English-Japanese section, and seventeen appendices. Each entry in the Japanese-English section includes the Japanese term in Roman script; the term in kana or kanji or both; a Latin name where appropriate; an English definition; and, for most entries, a short annotation. The English-Japanese section defines important English food terms in Japanese and annotates those needing explanation. The appendices focus on important elements of Japanese cuisine, from the making of miso and sake to vegetarianism and the tea ceremony. One hundred line drawings depict everything from the delicate mitsuba leaf to the dreadful okoze fish.

About the Author:

Richard Hosking holds an M.A. from Cambridge and is Emeritus Professor of Hiroshima Shudo University. He lived in Japan for 25 years and since 1998 has lived in London. He has lectured on Japanese food at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, the Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, and elsewhere throughout the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0804820422
• ISBN 13: 9780804820424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240