Slurp! : a social and culinary history of ramen, Japan's favorite noodle soup / / by Barak Kushner.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction – The Temple of Noodledom
- Three Sages Walk into a Restaurant and … Noodles
- Court Food versus Common Food
- International Japan, Foreign Foods and Isolation
- Early Modern Noodles and the Myth of Ramen
- The Meiji Restoration: Menu Renovation on the Road to Ramen
- Diplomacy and the Desire to Impress
- Empire and Japanese Cuisine
- World War II Cuisine: A World Adrift
- History at the Dining Table: Postwar Instant Ramen
- Ramen Popular Culture
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.