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Japanese Food and Culture

OBJECTIVES: Identify the major

influences, ingredients, flavors, and cooking techniques of Japanese cuisine.

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Japan's Geography

Japan's close neighbors, China and Korea, have played major roles in its culture through both trade and religion.

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Japanese Cuisine

Westerners introduced cooking techniques like baking and deep-frying, which was quickly adopted as tempura.

The word for cooked rice, gohan, also means meal, demonstrating its essential nature to Japanese cuisine.

Soybeans are a major agricultural product of Japan.

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Japanese Cuisine

Hokkaido, in northern Japan, produces most of the seafood consumed in Japan, as well as a wide variety of vegetables.

In the rice belt, mountain vegetables and maitake mushrooms are also produced; buckwheat soba noodles and hot-pots using local seafood are popular.

Tokyo and its environs are famous for nigiri sushi, seafood, and soybean products.

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Nigiri Sushi

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