Full Description
Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.
Tabemasho! Let's Eat! is a tasty look at how Japanese food has evolved in America from an exotic and mysterious—even "gross"—cuisine to the peak of culinary popularity, with sushi sold in supermarkets across the country and ramen available in hipster restaurants everywhere. The author was born in Japan and raised in the U.S. and has eaten his way through this amazing food revolution.
Contents
Introduction
Get Hungry!
Chapter 1: Appetizers: The Ingredients That Make Up the Bento Box
Chapter 2: First Course: The "Big Three" Japanese Foods to Americans -- Teriyaki, Sukiyaki and Tempura
Chapter 3: Entrees: Over a Century of Japanese Restaurants
Chapter 4: Japanese American adaptations including incarceration
Chapter 5: Rolling on: If you knew sushi like I knew sushi...
Chapter 6: Oodles of noodles: Udon, Soba and of course, Ramen, the "it" food
Chapter 7: Bowl me over: Anything on a bowl of rice is delicious
Chapter 8: Sweet dreams: Desserts from manju to mochi ice cream with a side trip to Hawaii
Chapter 9: Nomimono: Soft drinks, hard drinks and tea, lots of tea
Chapter 10: The real deal, Next on the menu, Fame and foodies
Glossary
Online Resources
Book List
