Description 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 role, at times also philosophical, economic, and social.
Ramen is a symbol of the relationship between the two major forces in East Asia - what started as a Chinese food product ended up almost 1, 000 years later as the emblem of modern Japanese cuisine.
This book explains that history - from myths about food in ancient East Asia to the transfer of medieval food technology to Japan, to today's ramen popular culture.
About the Author Barak Kushner, Ph D (2002), teaches Japanese history at the University of Cambridge.
The Thought War, his first book, delves into the history of wartime Japanese propaganda.
He is finishing a third book on Japanese war crimes in China.
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Global Oriental Slurp! a social and culinary history of ramen - japan's favorite noodle soup, paperback/barak kushner
