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D55 30900 | 12 hours |
This course explores the culture and history of Japanese cuisine. Designated in 2013 by UNESCO as part of the world’s “Intangible Cultural Heritage,” washoku or “Japanese food” is no longer restricted to Japan itself, but is now an integral component of global culinary culture. In the class, we follow the evolution of Japanese food from its origins in pre-historic hunting-gathering and rice cultivation to its globalization in fusion cuisine of the twenty-first century. The course ultimately aims to demonstrate how Japanese food today is not necessarily Japanese in origin, but the product of intra- and later intercontinental cultural, political, and religious networks.