White rice with side dishes isn’t really ‘traditional’ Japanese food. So where did we get this idea?

<https://theconversation.com/white-rice-with-side-dishes-isnt-really-traditional-japanese-food-so-where-did-we-get-this-idea-233871>

"At first glance, Netflix’s popular Japanese animation Delicious in Dungeon
is a strangely food-obsessed dungeon-crawler fantasy tale.

Upon a closer look, however, it reveals itself as a striking parody of the
popular “gourmet genre”. The series invites us to think critically about how
food traditions are created and conformed to.

It also reminds us that food is highly political and that the “culinary
nationalism” we see around the world – and particularly in Japan – is more
complicated than most people realise."

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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics