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Author Kushner, Barak, 1968- author

Title Slurp! : a social and culinary history of ramen - Japan's favorite noodle soup / by Barak Kushner
Published Leiden ; Boston : Global Oriental, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 289 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
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
Summary Based on research in Chinese and Japanese, as well as interviews with comedians, food service professionals, entertainment managers, store-owners, customers, and scholars of food history, Kushner explores the history of ramen and Japan's noodle culture over the last 1,000 years
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Noodles -- Japan
Noodles -- Japan -- History
Pasta products -- Japan -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
Noodles
Pasta products
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004220980
9004220984
1283602067
9781283602068
9786613914514
6613914517
Other Titles Social and culinary history of ramen, Japan's favorite noodle soup