New Year Food
Tsuyoshi Horikawa He talked about history of race cake and Ozouni. Rice cake was expensive in the Muromachi period, but it was cheap in the Edo period, and everyone in Japan began to eat it. Rice cake is also famous overseas and can be eaten as a sweet such as Daifuku and Mitarashi. He advised that when eating mochi, you should eat it slowly. It is because the rice cake is sticky, it gets stuck in the throat. Kyoka Unoki She talked about ozoni in various parts of Japan. Walnut ozoni is famous in Iwate prefecture, white miso ozoni in Kyoto prefecture, kinako ozoni in Nara prefecture, and azuki bean ozoni in Tottori prefecture. Zoni, which is famous in each region, has been inherited as a traditional culture. We should pass on this culture to posterity. Honoka Kohama She talked about New Year's dishes from all over the world. Pelmeni and dumplings are famous in Russia, Garrett de Roi and pie in France, tteokguk and ozoni in South Korea, and Yushen and pineapple...