[Sca-cooks] Something new for me

[Glenn Adrian]

The oldest know Japanese cookbook is the Ryori  Monogatari.  This is
slightly post period I think, but the oldest we have, and unlikely to be
that much different to what they cooked.  The version I have of the English
translation is incomplete, and open to some questions of interpretation.  It
also isn't complete recipes.  But it does tell you what most of the foods
available to the Japanese then.  And the different way they were prepared.

There are other older mentions of what food they ate, but no attempt at
instructions.

Basically be prepared for a blander diet than usual, utilising a wide range
of meat, bird and fish, rice, noodle and flour and seaweeds, mushrooms, root
veges, veges, tofu, miso, and fruit.  Fried, boiled, dried, fresh.  And many
multi-step processes.  But fewer flavours than we are use to.  You can
easily google what fruits had made it to Japan by period too.

The translator is Baron Il Katsumori (Joshua Badgley),  tatsushu at gmail.com


YIS

Glenn of SG


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