Review: . Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways

Natsuko Tsujimura. Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways. Lexington Books. New York. 2023. ISBN: 9781498571333. pp. 287. Richard … More

Review: National Dish

Anya von Bremzen. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. New York: … More

Review: Re-Orienting Cuisine

Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 … More

Residences, Rentals and Redolent Delectables: Women entrepreneurs and the Japanese baking industry

By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor … More

Conference Report: 6th annual Asian Food Study Conference, Kusatsu, Japan

While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference … More

Naresaba: A Fraught History of Fermented Mackerel Sushi

Shingo Hamada Osaka Shoin Women’s University Fermentation is a preservation technology often seen in Southeast Asia and East Asia, including … More

Roundtable Report: “Globalization of Asian Cuisines”

To celebrate the publication of “Globalization of Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Culinary Contact Zones,” three of the edited volume’s … More