Dear all,
Do you find the changes at the top page? After starting the class, I put comment numbers, and the calendar. It was a bit hard to make these changes.
OK. Do you enjoy the class? Short posts would be fine. Just do it.
And I am thinking of the assignment for this semestar. Usually I set it by the end of December. In this year's posts, the foods in the different countries such as Chinese food in India seems interesting, but it might be difficult for the assignment. Gibier seems good, but again might be difficult. How about expanding the scope like foods from the wild. But fish is ordinary, so should be excluded.
Foods from the wild (except for fish). What do you think? Does each of you have in mind and have any experiences?
For example, in Japan, we have edible wild plants (ex. horsetails (tsukushi), Pteridium aquilinum (warabi), Aralia cordata (udo)), mammals (deer and boars), mushrooms, and maybe insects?
It should be better if you have any experiences as it means you are familiar to it, but may be OK even if not.
Of course this is just a plan at present so I might change later. Can you leave your ideas below or as a post?
Dear Prof. Takashi, I noticed the calenda. I am enjoying the class.
ReplyDeleteIs the assignment to write a report on a given topic?
Do "Foods from the wild" include fruits?
Are less common foods suitable for the assignment?
I was surprised to see a whole fish in your bento. Nice!
> Are less common foods suitable for the assignment?
DeleteWell. maybe yes. If it is so common, we get almost no information as we already know. Then, we get much from the presentation if it is less common.
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ReplyDeleteI'm interested in the topic of country-specific food materials.
The food materials make me think "There is a country that eats this kind of food material !"
Of course, I know it is difficult to find food materials that ONLY ONE country eats.
It's a little time consuming, but how about searching for the countries where that food material is eaten, and if it's a small number of countries, it's applicable.
Although this article said that fish should not be included, but I would like to take octopus as one example. there are a only few countries that eat octopus, in addition, quite a few countries eat raw octpus. I find it interesting that in Europe it was avoided because it reminded the Kraken.
Thank you for your proposal, Taga. I do not know if it is a good idea as Japanese students compete for materials suitable for the topic. But if most say OK, it should be OK. What come to your mind other than octopus. For me, many kinds of sea weeds, hoya (sea squirt), sea anemone...many come from the ocean. I believe (but not sure) that many wild vegetables (what we call sansai山菜) must be included, like warabi, zenmai, udo, taranome...oh, they are shared by the topic of wild food!
DeleteIf I give too many examples here, it will take away Japanese student's option, so I would like to write about just one.
DeleteAlthough burdock is a widely known as food material in Japan, there seem to be only few countries where people eat it.
For example, there is a story like this.
During the war, the Japanese served the same food to American soldiers who were captured as prisoners of war, and after the war, they angrily said, We were forced to eat "the roots of plants."
I imagine that widely known foods may not be very intriguing, as many students are already familiar with such stories to some extent. I would rather like to know that your grand parents got something in the mountain or things like that. So I prefer foods you get from the wild. I am waiting for others' comments.
DeleteDear sensei, I apologize for late response. Regarding the assignment plans, i agree with your topic about wild food. This is an uncommon and interesting topic to bring up, and I believe it will expand our horizon of food. I think every country has their own wild food. In Indonesia also, It's not just plants, mushrooms, insects, and a few mammals. Thank you.
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