Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup by Kushner, Barak

Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004218451)

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Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup by Kushner, Barak

Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup

$105.00
Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup by Kushner, Barak

Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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Ramen, Japan's noodle soup, is a microcosm of Japan and its historical relations with China. The long evolution of ramen helps us enter the history of cuisine in Japan, charting how food and politics combined as a force within Sino-Japan relations. Cuisine in East Asia plays a significant political role, at times also philosophical, economic, and social. Ramen is a symbol of the relationship between the two major forces in East Asia - what started as a Chinese food product ended up almost 1,000 years later as the emblem of modern Japanese cuisine. This book explains that history - from myths about food in ancient East Asia to the transfer of medieval food technology to Japan, to today's ramen "popular culture."

Author: Barak Kushner
ISBN-10: 9004218459
ISBN-13: 9789004218451
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2012
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.40w x 0.90d

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Choice 06/01/2013
By Barak Kushner
By Barak Kushner
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Barak Kushner, PhD (2002), teaches Japanese history at the University of Cambridge. The Thought War, his first book, delves into the history of wartime Japanese propaganda. He is finishing a third book on Japanese war crimes in China. For more: (www.barakkushner.net).

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