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The Cooking of Japan (Foods of the World)
The Cooking of Japan - Foods of the World Author:Rafael Steinberg & the Editors of Time-Life Books "SOLVING THE MYSTERIES OF JAPAN'S MARVELOUS CUISINE" — "As a boy in landlocked, then lakeless Oklahoma, I had dreamed of the islands of Japan, but both Lafcadio Hearn and Giacomo Puccini were curiously reticent about Japanese food. Rumors of "raw fish" fought their way through dust storms and tornados, but that whole, salty, underwater world of "... more »sea-food" was for the most part a trickle of misinformation. Squid and octopus. (Any difference? Don't they both squirt black ink and who counts tentacles anyway?) Sea urchins and anemones. (What the devil are they? Kids? Flowers?) Secrets of the sea eluded canning processes, frozen foods hadn't come along yet, and refrigerator cars were fairly unknown. (Or did they simply stop at Kansas City and refuse to go on?) .... - 1st paragraph of the introduction« less