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Publisher Comments:

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.

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.

Synopsis:

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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780804820424
Subtitle:
Culture
Author:
Hosking, Richard
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
Location:
Rutland, Vt.:
Subject:
Japanese
Subject:
English language
Subject:
Japanese language
Subject:
Cookery, japanese
Subject:
English language -- Dictionaries -- Japanese.
Subject:
Cookery, Japanese -- Dictionaries.
Subject:
Regional & Ethnic - Japanese
Subject:
General Cooking
Subject:
Japanese language -- Dictionaries -- English.
Subject:
Cooking and Food-Japanese
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
No Series
Series Volume:
GTR-149
Publication Date:
19970115
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
bandw line drawings
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
8 x 5 in 9 oz

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Product details 240 pages Tuttle Publishing - English 9780804820424 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , 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.

"Synopsis" by , 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.
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