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Nourishing Life : Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlachet, Joshua.
- Series:
- Food in Asia and the Pacific Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Can food determine your fate?Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community?Nourishing Life reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating became both a popular phenomenon and a matter of grave concern among trained medical experts and amateur culinary enthusiasts alike.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title: Nourishing Life
- Series Editors
- Book Title: Nourishing Life
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Conventions
- Introduction: The Could and the Should of Eating Right
- Nourishment Before Nutrition
- The Could and the Should of Eating Right
- Changing Minds and Changing Habits
- A Road Map to Nourishing Life
- Chapter 1: The Yōjōkun Brand: Kaibara Ekiken and the Culture of Nourishment in the Eighteenth Century
- Eating Right and Living Right in Eighteenth-Century Japan
- The Origins and Transformation of NourishingLife in China and Japan
- To Destroy Your Life Through Desire Is to Die by Your Own Sword
- Building the Yōjōkun Brand
- Ekiken as Irresistible Seducer
- Chapter 2: Better Pay the Cookbook than the Doctor: Decentering Dietary Expertise
- Your Fate Is in Your Food
- Not One to Author Books
- Smash Your Cups in the Grove of Letters
- Why Dilettantes Wrote Diet Books
- Chapter 3: Moderation in the Market: Consumption and Commerce in the Tokugawa Economy
- Heterodoxy and the Logics of Eating Right
- A Cuisine Turned Upside Down
- Eating like a Farmer and the Problem of Urban Excess
- Choice and Subsistence in Real-World Foodways
- Why Be Healthy?
- A Market for Moderation
- Chapter 4: Tales in the Stomach: Digestion and Interiority in Comic Fiction
- Locating the Stomach in Anatomy and Analogy
- Dreams of Ekiken
- Your Stomach Is a Battlefield
- Dreams Are an Affliction of the Five Organs
- Entremets. A White-CrestedWave of Wasted Rice: Famine Prevention and Diet in Crisis
- Frugality Without Food
- The Logistics of Charity
- Frugality, Morality, and the Limits of the Market
- Famine Prevention in Luxury and Poverty
- Chapter 5: An Encouragement of Nourishing: Negotiating with Nutrition(ism) at the Cusp of Modernity.
- The New and the Old in Modern Nutrition
- Hufeland's Makrobiotik and Japanese Nourishment in Transition
- A Man Named Māgenjī Kept Two Dogs
- Dietary Samurai Gets a Haircut
- Restoration or Revolution Redux
- Chapter 6: On Bread and National Ruin: Cerealism and the Chemistry of Culinary Tradition
- The Optimization Mentality and the Emergenceof National Nutrition
- Married Alkalis, Distant Lands
- Amateur Cerealism, Nutritional Nationalism
- Was There Such a Thing as Japanese Nutrition?
- Conclusion: Eating Right and Living Right, Then and Now
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Yōjōkun Brand
- Chapter 2: Better Pay the Cookbook than the Doctor
- Chapter 3: Moderation in the Market
- Chapter 4: Tales in the Stomach
- Entremets: A White-Crested Wave of Wasted Rice
- Chapter 5: An Encouragement of Nourishing
- Chapter 6: On Bread and National Ruin
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8070-257-2
- 979-88-8070-258-9
- OCLC:
- 1581929192
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