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“The Japanese only really started eating what we think of as Japanese food in the years after the Second World War.”

Food Japan Food Writing Food History

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health.”

Food Eating Japan Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Japanese cuisine did not change all at once but in stages.”

Food Japan Food Writing Japanese Cuisine

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.”

Food Japan Food Writing Japanese Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“In Japan, food filters into every aspect of the culture.”

Culture Food Japan Japanese Food

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.”

Food Japan Obesity Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.”

Food Japan Food Writing Cuisine

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Umami is the savoury meatiness in seaweed and miso and soy sauce. It is, to a large extent, the concept that enables Japanese cuisine to be healthy and attractive at the same time.”

Food Japan Food Writing Cuisine Umami

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“The concept of “delicious” was born in Japan in 1908 when a chemist called Ikeda discovered a “fifth taste” called umami that was neither bitter nor salty nor sweet nor sour but something more wonderful and compelling than any of these.”

Food Japan Delicious Food Writing Umami

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.”

Change Food Japan Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Changing the way you eat is hard, but it can be done. Look at Japan.”

Change Food Eating Japan

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Hara hachi bu is a Confucian principle, popular in Japan since medieval times, that you should eat until you are only eight-tenths full. This principle has since been given backing by nutrition scientists who note that when we eat there is a time delay between the body receiving the food and the brain registering that we are full. When the urge comes to have a second helping, it’s worth waiting twenty minutes, and the feeling may pass.”

Culture Food Japan Food Writing Confucianism

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“We tend to automatically associate hearty meat dishes with men and lighter salads and sweets with women, and these stereotypes are replicated in cultures as different as France and Japan.”

Food Japan Stereotypes Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Noodles arrived in Japan with Buddhist monks from China in the Middle Ages, but until the twentieth century they tended to be made from buckwheat, or a mix of wheat and rice.”

China Japan Food Writing Food History Noodles

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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First Bite: How We Learn to EatRelated source material

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of ChangeRelated source material

The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the KitchenRelated source material