Japanese and Australian Culture: Food and Cuisine

While examining a culture, most people would typically think of the language, religion, style of dress, and customs of that particular group, but some people fail to realize the importance of that culture’s food. During the late 1800s and early-mid 1900s, many various ethnic and cultural groups immigrated to the United States and brought with them their cuisine. In the novel Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Hasia R. Diner, the ways of which American culture has shaped the food culture of immigrants in the US and how their foods influenced American cuisine. There were two prominent groups—Italians and Irish—that immigrated to the US that were either greatly influenced and/or influenced by

Japanese people show great pride in their heritage and they use their food as a form of expression in order to show their cultural heritage. The Japanese focus on the small things in their cuisine that helps make such a large impact in the quality of the food. The country takes pride in their food and uses it for various symbolic reasons. Sushi and pride both have a large correlation in Japanese culture. Their attention to detail is also used as an advantage in order to show people all around the world as to why they are known for their wonderful cuisine. Sushi is pivotal in showing the identity of the Japanese people. Various factors play a role in sushi, such as; the geographical location of

The modern Australian cuisine has been greatly inclined by different migrants to the country. The arrival of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East has brought an enormous range of new tastes. Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Lebanese, French, African and Greek cuisine have made such great influence on Australian flavours. Australian cuisine has a variety of flavours mixed with other cultures as different nationalities migrated in Australia in the mid-19th century. Our cuisine is influenced by those immigrants, and without them, our food might be tasteless. The Europeans, for example, brought coffee, lasagne and pizza in 1950s - this affected Australians’ diet. Now, pizzas have variety of flavours influencing Australia - it can now

It just simply displays the spread of cultural awareness and the gaining of cultural literacy, which is essential to life when learning about new people. In the article, “Global Sushi: Eating and Identity”, the author asks ”Why do we not characterize Americans as being ‘Japanized’ when eating sushi just as we commonly construe other cultures as becoming ‘Americanized’ through eating McDonald’s food?” (Edwards, 212). This rhetorical question is implying the idea of how Americans conclude that countries eating American food are ‘Americanized’. However, this is just people acknowledging and appreciating other cultures.

Thus creates a problem with food preparation in Japan, the show My American Wife show a perfect family when behind the scenes everything is far from perfect. This idea that the American family is perfect will leave the Japanese people looking for more in their relationships, as well as creating a gender divide where the men feel more empowered over their wife’s. This divide sources from BEEF-EX advertising as they push American ideal on to the people of Japan. The consumption of red meat in the Japanese culture shows the pattern of westernization in Japan, “My American Wife” features American wives demonstrating the steps to simple American recipes that contain red meat and can be performed at home for a family dinner. At the typical American family dinner table, red meat represents the main dish that unites each family member to bond with each other by sharing the dish. This creates a desire for the Japanese culture to change their ideal for the more modern ideals in the show. Though food processing, food preparation, and the consumption of these American recipes the westernization of Japan is in full

Ozeki’s review of the food cultures of America and Japan points out that people have the perceived superiority is because the meat consumerism culture of the society. People’s view is obviously through the outlook that a meat diet is healthier and more common in American’s high class. The revelation make about America’s food culture is evident from the ways it affected the Japanese food culture. The influence is evident from the abandonment of the traditional and past values associated with the Japanese food culture, as evident from characters such as Akiko and John. The symbol of the conversion is that the Japanese people have embraced the American food culture, due to its perceived superiority. According to Ozeki, the perceived superiority of the food culture of America result from the country’s economic and social prosperity, which has compelled Japan to adopt the food culture of America (Ozeki 435). The

Nowadays, Australian food has changed over the course of the years. They have been influenced by a range of different culture, rows of inexpensive ingredients and a growth of interest in diverse food. During the time of the European settlers the colonists were blinded by the food in front of them and not adopting indigenous foods [12]. That is, Australia’s traditional food has been downsized as its food history has become dynamic, industrial and driven by capitalist with the increase in migration over the course of the years. Moreover, through Australia multicultural cuisines, different culture and ethnic groups have been shown to have similar food patters. Although immigrants have left their own country, their food are used as a means to retain

We formed a group as an academic project-Confront Culture-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. The objective of this project is to demonstrate cultural foods and gain understanding in various cultures as a viewpoint from an Anthropologist. The examination of foods is not just about food. It is bringing together several methods of a culture such as rituals, traditions and purpose as it relates to foods. The type of foods chosen in different cultures provides Anthropologist background knowledge of a culture, changes over a period of time, characteristics and devotion of in relation to an individual or a group in society. Anthropology is the study and the relativity of human mankind. There are four important fields in Anthropology (MCDowell, 2007)

It has been seen that society might be more plentiful when the country have more foreigners. Every country also have their own cultural beauties, with many customs and habits, with the traditional and modern features. Australian society is increasingly diverse thanks to the arrival of many cultures and traditions from more than 200 countries around the world. Many new cultural characteristics appeared and interference with the local culture, that have a profound impact to the life of immigrants as well as native speakers. Cultural sectors affected most from immigration is probably cuisine and festivals. This is a multicultural country, therefore it can be able to find enough dining style here. For example, the cuisine from barbecue to “English breakfasts”, or Chinese, Japan, Thailand, Greece food are easily served in Australia. The reason is that immigrants have brought culinary culture of their

Many times the first thing that a person learns about a country is about the nation cuisine. From the connection of hamburgers and the United States, to the bond of pasta to Italy, each country seems to have particular food and cooking that they have become synonymous with. Often though it is overlooked how these nationalised dishes came to be in the first place. Examples can be seen when differentiating between the modern countries of The Republic of India, The United Mexican States, and the French Republic. For these states the foundation of a national cuisine has come from many different influences, from their role in colonization, their relationship between food and class, and to the integration of their regional foods within the nation’s

My year of meats is a novel by Ruth Ozeki, exploring the differences between the food cultures of America and Japan, with the aim of establishing generalizations on both. Through the exploration of the Japanese and American views and culture on food, and beef products in general points out the differences in the views of the people from the two countries. As an example, Akiko’s husband believes that, if she learned to cook and eat an American diet full of meat, it would be easier for her to grow fatter and to get pregnant (Ozeki 21). In his attempts to make her adopt the American diet, he compelled Akiko to watch the show, my American wife, where “each weekly half-hour episode…culminated in the celebration of a featured meat, climaxing in its glorious consumption” (Ozeki 8). The fact that Japanese such as John embraced the American diet as the solution to their health problems points out the acceptance of the superiority of America’s food culture. The review of the food cultures of the two countries, stereotypes about food, the conception of food culture, and the revelations to be drawn from food culture will point out the fundamental differences between the Japanese and American people and their food cultures.

Japanese immigrants were involved in the Australian Pearling industry, as well as occasionally found in sugar stations alongside the South See Islanders; the first Japanese immigrant arrived in 1877 and was soon followed by others after the release of capital ban to leave Japan held until 1866.[1] However, Japanese migration was halted as a result of war, during this period, immigration from Japan was banned until 1949[4][1], followed by a large scale movement in 1981; by the end of the war period, only 74 people of Japanese origins remained in Australia, which increased to 35 378 people in 2011.[1] Japanese food culture can be observed anywhere in Australia, having become a staple item in the fast food industry through the cultivation of Sushi and Bento Boxes across Australia, particularly Melbourne and Sydney, and even more in their respective CBD. Data from polls across the country state that people who would “like eating sushi”[11] has grown from 36% to 40%, observed differences were seen across age groups with people below 50 being more likely to like sushi, with a whopping 115.6million sushi served during 2014[5].[11][5] This is due to sushi being considered the ‘healthy alternative’ available in fast food outlets, as well as being a common choice for those time-restrained or in need of a snack due to small

Over the years, the ever-evolving gastronomic identity that resulted from the fluid integration between peasant and elite populations helped shape an equally evolving Italian cultural identity. This glutinous parallel can be seen in the unique identities in the various regions ranging from the South to the North of Italy. Although many national stereotypes exist today from the “macaroni-eaters,” to the red sauce that accompanies pasta, these can be explained by the exchange and the influence that globalization has on culture. Acting as a basis to Italian identity are the practices passed down through generations orally, the knowledge that is indispensable to their heritage in which each recipe holds a variant to another. This

Food is closely related to human beings as it is one of the daily necessities that cannot be omitted. Food offers in different places varies due to the differences in geographical location, weather, identity, culture, availability of ingredients, purpose, to name but a few. Hence food can indeed reflects the identity of those who consumes it because it is related to them intently. However, there is not much investigation in the relationship between Identity and food. One of the major reasons is that food seems to be too informal to be considered in an academic context. Thus I would like to use this opportunity to illustrate the connection between food and identity. In this essay, I would focus on explaining how Asian identity, particularly Hong Kong people (Chinese) and Vietnamese identities, are expressed in food and compare their similarities and differences.

Influenced by Narayan, Duruz and Cook, we do this by emphasising the importance of examining Anglo-Australian whiteness and white food as ‘ethnic.’