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A Travelogue of Meals
: The History of Food Culture in Korea, China and Japan: Same Ingredients but Different Dishes

Author

Yoon Deokroh

Publisher

Deeptree

Categories

Humanities & Society

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Korea
  • #Japan
  • #China
  • #food
  • #culture
  • #history

Copyright Contact

  • Publication Date

    2017-08-31
  • No. of pages

    320
  • ISBN

    9788998822385
  • Dimensions

    147 * 210
Overview

This book unveils an interesting and special history of food culture, with dishes from Korea, China and Japan.

Book Intro

For Koreans, the smell of the dotted gizzard shad grilling in the autumn stimulates the appetite so much that there's a saying that it will even "lure back a daughter-in-law who has run away from home." But for Japanese people, there's no worse odor than that smell. From ancient times in Korea, the small yellow croaker was one of the most popular side dishes for a meal. But in China, the large yellow croaker, which Koreans denounce as a "fake croaker," is more exorbitantly expensive. Koreans consider eggplants to be a rather boring vegetable but in China, it has been praised since the olden days as a "vegetable grown in the mountains where Taoist hermits with miraculous powers live." The Japanese believed that you will have great luck if you see an eggplant in the dream you dream on the first day of the new year.

As such, while Korea, China and Japan have historically shared several important common denominators of culture, such as rice and Confucianism, they have each built up their own unique cultural history. A Travelogue of Meals looks into how the cultural spirit and characteristics of these three countries are reflected in and helped develop their cuisine and dishes. Cuisine and dishes are an embodiment of a culture's values, sentiments and lifestyle in a given period, a projection of society. Even if the ingredients are the same, the unique cultural individuality of each country is shown in the handling and cooking methods. In addition, sometimes these three countries have reinterpreted each other's food, creating a whole different food. With cuisine and dishes at its center, the author tells us an interesting and special cultural history by employing humanistic imagination, historical incidents that happened among the three countries, folktales passed down orally, and old reference materials.

About the Author

Yoon Deokroh



(English) Yoon Deok-roh graduated from Sungkyunkwan University with a major in English Literature. After joining Maeil Business Newspaper, he worked as director in many fields, such as social affairs, international affairs, science and technology, and small and medium-sized enterprises. He has worked as Beijing correspondent for Maeil Business Newspaper and visiting researcher at Cleveland State University in the USA. While working as a reporter for 25 years, he has eaten and studied various types of food from many countries, following his personal interest in food. He has discovered and introduced origins of and related stories about food to the public based on the vast amount of data he has collected so far.

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