{"product_id":"the-illustrated-dictionary-of-japanese-food-ingredients-preparations-and-culture","title":"The Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients, Preparations, and Culture","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1996 without the 320 photographs that now make it an illustrated dictionary, this is a handy, comprehensive guide to Japanese ingredients, dishes, drinks, and culinary tools. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts compact 8” x 5” format disguises its scope. Entries range from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eabekawamochi \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(grilled cut mochi topped with sugar or syrup and a parched soybean flour known as kinako) to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ezuwaigani \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Pacific snow crab, harvested in winter). Hosking includes Japanese characters along with romanized names, including the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ekanji \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003echaracters adopted from China, which he says are often more definitive and some of which are extremely rare and unusual, “and therefore in my view all the more worth presenting.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAppendices delve more deeply into the making and use of signal elements of Japanese food culture, such as chopsticks, miso, tea and tea ceremony, soy sauce, and the rare \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewasanabon \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esugar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Australia and educated at Cambridge, Hosking (1933-2019) was Professor of Sociology and English at Hiroshima Shudo University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback. Color photographs throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TUT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41589758165125,"sku":"Richard Hosking","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/5046\/0549\/files\/HoskingIllustratedCover.jpg?v=1781023772","url":"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/the-illustrated-dictionary-of-japanese-food-ingredients-preparations-and-culture","provider":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}