Japan's Traditional Food Culture Is Disappearing - Let's Save It!
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- It's disheartening to witness the decline of the Japanese culture we inherited from the older generation. I'm passionate about preserving and sharing it. If you can work with me on this issue, this would mean a lot. Let's connect in Boston this February! Stay in touch on Instagram!
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If you have been with me for a while or started to watch my videos a month ago, I appreciate every one of you for allowing me to share my dream and vision. 🥰Have a wonderful holidays!
Happy Holidays 🥰
Merry Christmas. Have a blessed New Year.
Happy holidays Miwa! Grateful for your videos✨
Happy holidays, Miwa-san, and a happy new year! Thank you so much for all your videos. I've been following you for quite a while now, but I'm still learning from them. Congratulations on taking the course in Boston. This is the next step in your journey! I wish you a successful 2024! ありがとうございます and またね!
Due in part to globalization, traditional methods are disappearing, not only in Japan, bu everywhere else as well. I think we are progressively losing many beautiful and precious things due to that. I fully agree that we should support traditional food culture, because food is one of the most important cultural aspect of every people, and culture is what makes us who we are.
This is soooo true... I didn't realize this until I lived in another country... Now I cherish it more.
Not just globalization, but industrialization and convenience-ification of food. People are less connected with the supply chain and origins of ingredients, as well as less active in the kitchen. If one’s parents did not learn to cook from their parents and so on, then one will never gain the ancestral knowledge of traditional foods based on their country/ethnic background. That knowledge will be lost in that person and their descendants. Unfortunately there are a lot of people like this in today’s societies.
Congratulations! I am in Boston, I hope to see you here in February. We share a similar mindset, concern for old traditions that are dying out. I applaud you for trying to reverse this culture shift even in small ways.
Nice! I will share details on Instagram! If you can follow me there, that would be great!
I wanted to let you know that your wonderful, informative videos have taught me so much, I love following your recipes, and adapting them when I cannot get all the ingredients here in North Wales. Thank you very much and congratulations on your achievements. Wishing you and your family a very happy 2024 🇯🇵💕🏴
Thank you so much for your kind words. I can assume it's not easy to adapt the recipe. I appreciate the fact you are still trying my recipes under that situation!
I was so glad to find your page. I have been struggling for a while now the gut issues and problems with my gallbladder. I had actually become afraid of food. But I started trying some of your dishes including your miso soup. I have noticed a change in my body with just thing small shift in food choices. I try different dishes, 1 at a time. (I’m still some what afraid of food). But just including rice with multiple meals and miso at least every day if not twice a day has made a huge difference. I saw your hot pot recipe and am planning to try that next! Thank you so much!❤ 🍲
This is fantastic, thank you for continuing to support traditional ways and educating all.
Congratulations! That's wonderful and I'm sure you will be successful in whatever it is you do. You will also be supported by your loyal viewers.
Miwa-san, i may not be blood related to you but i’m proud of what you are doing. While it is nice to have modern convenience, it is important to preserve our cultures. I am born as 3rd generation Chinese in Indonesia. I grow up eating 1 soup & 3 veggie dishes for the 1st 17yrs of my life. I raised my kids on the similar culture except with less dishes. I don’t cook everyday but every other day. Our culture has prepared us to do meal prep for days when we either too tired to cook or too busy to cook to always be able to put food on the table in minutes. Thank you for preserving this culture.
I always think our cooking styles are somewhat similar. It makes me intrigued to know more about your food culture too! Thank you for sharing!
All good fortune in your brave new venture!
Happy Holidays 🎄
Congratulations! Your videos are terrific and simple! 🙏
Thank you so much!!
I think it is so helpful to have a digital downloadable cookbook or guide that you can request payment for its download. I find myself going back to those recipes I have a written component to guide me.
Congratulations and very much good luck in this adventure!
Wow, this is so remarkable, you are a remarkable young lady, I wish you all the success in the world, cultural heritage is so prrcious
Thank you so much🙏✨
People in japan: More and more westernized food. Me: Eating nearly only self made japanese food, because it makes my body feel the best. It makes me feel well nutrioned, energized and full without feeling stuffed. I do appriate the european food and like to cook and eat it as well but out of all the kitchens around the world japanese food, in exactly the style you make it, is just what makes me feel the best. Learning how to make bento really was such a game changer for me in my hectic life where I always have to perform my best. In germany we mostly eat bread for lunch and while I love a good sandwich from time to time it's not a long term option for me personally. I would love to learn more about the culture and the roots behind the food we love! To me it is part of appreciating it. I also loooved your video on the fermented bean paste :) Here's to growing and expanding! Merry christmas and happy new year and thank you for your wonderful videos!
haha! I should share your comment with people in Tokyo! I also feel the same when I eat Japanese food. Western style of cooking is like a treat for me^^
Me too! That’s literally all I eat. I also cook with chopsticks all the time. lol. I love it and won’t look back.
I am so happy for you! Congratulations and good luck!
Im thrilled for you! You are going to do so well. 🎉
You will love New England, especially from a culinary standpoint. I'm a Vermonter, and I have for a long time now been combining Vermont local specialties with Japanese cooking methods and philosophy at home. I highly recommend a visit.
oh wow! That's incredible! Your word made me very excited for a visit!
I would love to see a cookbook from you!
I only have E-cookbooks, but printed version would be something I want to do in the future! Thank you!
I'm so excited for you!! My heart breaks for all the countries and cultures whose traditional foodways are disappearing. I'm certain that relying on quick, mass produced food is why so many people all over the world are dealing with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and other chronic health issues. As someone who lives in the US, I would appreciate a video where you go to a typical US grocery store and look for Japanese ingredients and substitutes. If you have time when you are in Boston, maybe you can do that? Sometimes I will not prepare an authentic dish because I am missing particular ingredients and don't have the time to research the best substitutes. Also, I feel plant-based eating is becoming more popular. Learning about new vegetables, how to choose the best ones and traditional ways of preparing the vegetables would be really interesting and helpful. I'm so looking forward to what you learn and what you teach from your time in Boston! Happy New Year to you and yours!
I also enjoy learning about the traditional cuisines of other countries, and it's been a dream of mine to find cookbooks and resources that focus on historically traditional and/or homestyle meals. I'm very excited for your journey and support your vision too 😁
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Hope you will enjoy Boston. It is a pretty nice place for a city.
I am an American but I am very fortunate that I live down the street from a very traditional Japanese restaurant. I was served okara there as a free appetizer and it was so light and delicious. I was instantly intrigued and wanted to learn more. Now that I am starting a family of my own, I am trying to make Japanese food at home so that my children have healthy meals. Thanks to you, I am learning so much. I appreciate your channel, and I appreciate the health benefits of washoku! Itadakimasu!
I love using food to explore other cultures - so I am very much interested in this traditional Japanese food venture. So I will be looking to cook traditional Japanese food all the way in the UK (where possible with the ingredients!).
Woooooooooowwww ❤❤❤❤❤ as a person who follows you since a long time, i a could not be more happy!!! Your idea is great, you have all the capacity to do it and is great, the problem is everywhere, with globalization, which is normal I think andni m not against it, but is also very important to remember the traditions. I m italian and i can tell you that even if our food is famous and such, almost nobidy of my age doesnlike inwas young we were preparing fresh pasta nad Ravioli etc with my grandma, sweets and all kind of dishes wh ih took a lot of time to be prepared but are our traditional regional dishes. I wish you the best amd i m surr you will exceed your own expectations. Nothing is impossible leep going!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
I remember my Japanese host mother giving my host brother always a western breakfast of yogurt and toast. Only when he started middle school she started making a Japanese style breakfast. For me I now mix the western style foods with the Japanese foods. I hope my daughter will learn to eat a wide arrange of foods that way as well as seeing that many can be homemade, even by a mom with health isssues.
Congratulations on your participation! おめでとうございます！And have a happy holiday season with your family. Thank you for all the content you shared this year.
I'm very sure your daughter see and take over what you do. Not now, but when she gets older, that's when she starts to feel really appreciate what you've done! You are amazing Tamara!
Congratulations! You have worked so diligently. Well deserved. Gan ba te. Hmm, expanding on your efforts? Perhaps in-person or virtual meetups in which people give each other ideas on adapting Japanese recipes to what is locally available?
Oh, that's a wonderful idea! Thank you for sharing! That's kind of what we do in the membership, so it gives me confidence that what I do is on the right track!
Congratulations on going to Boston! I hope that you can save traditional food culture. When you go to Boston, will you visit a near-by Japanese supermarket? Maybe you can make some suggestions based on what people can buy there.
oh that's a great idea! If the time and supermarket allows me, I'll try that !
Congratulations on your successes! That is so exciting, thank you for what you do. I just visited Japan in August and I loved your country so much I want to go back. This channel is very helpful in teaching me about cooking Japanese food at home.
I'm glad to hear this! Thank you so much!!
I just wanted to share how much I love your videos. I have incorporated many Japanese cooking principles (and also east Indian, Korean) into my personal cooking and daily eating style and you have been an inspiration and blessing to me. Merry Christmas and happy year of dragon!
awww thank you so much! It really means a lot!
My suggestions........stop, THINK, breathe, follow your instincts! I've just hit subscribe because I have faith that you are authentic, honorable, doing your best and imperfect -and I don't WANT perfect! I want REAL - warts, rough patches, and setbacks included because that is life for every human being and facing that is how we better ourselves and society.,. And your English is SOOOO good, never doubt yourself there!! Sending hugs and best wishes for 2024 from Sydney, Australia!
Congratulations! Supporting from Canada! Ganbatte!
Congratulations on your selection! So happy for you! I truly believe you are making am impactful difference in the way many people perceive food and how they eat! Keep up the good work!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
I want to learn about traditional pickling practices in Japan among other food practices. I maintain a vegan lifestyle, so there's certain things I won't be engaging in learning, but it's exciting to see people working to preserve traditional food cultures. Congratulations as well 🥳
Me too. I once tasted tofu fermented in miso for months. It was so good i wanna be able to replicate the taste. There’s more to Japanese cooking other than meat/fish dishes. I always omit those but i can always use gomaae ( the sesame paste sauce) on any steamed or blanched veggies. When too lazy to grind my own, i’d simply use tahini.😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing! I think there are many others who think the same in this community! I'll keep in mind! ^^
Thank you for this wonderful video and congratulations on being selected for the training program! Does someone know which kind of rice that is available in france comes closest to the original japanese rice? What are good rice brands to look out for? I would like to integrate morr japanese dishes but i mainly find basmati or longgrain rice and the rice you show in your videos looks absolutely amazing❤❤❤❤
Thank you very much for your kind words! I hope you can find Japanese sushi rice in France!
I love your videos and love the Japanese way of eating. I've taken from your videos that we really do need to slow down, why be in such a hurry? I am guilty of being too busy, but your videos have helped me to look at life different. Congratulations and have a wonderful holiday and new year 🙏
yes! I also have to remind myself to slow down with juggling business and parenting. I guess we just have to prioritize your core part of hapiness. then the action follows after. It's a difficult practive but worth it. Thank you!
Congrats with your plans. I love your videos and they keep me coming back to the Japanese style of cooking. What I would love is finding more of the ways of videos you do now. And of course extra information on cultural items would be nice. But for me it is all about your cooking videos.
I wish the best this new year for you and your family Miwa. Thank you for all your lovely videos!❤❤
I love learning about your culture and food healing our bodies and building community. You are a wonderful friend and teacher I have found I really enjoy our similarities and our differences that allow us to learn and grow from each other! Happy New Year 2024!! Merry Christmas and All the Holidays For your family 💝🙏💝
I especially love that you see me as a friend.😊 Thank you so much for your kind words!
Congratulations! Preserving your traditional food culture and sharing it with others is a wonderful and worthy goal! You are brave to move forward, and I admire you very much! I
Thank you very much for your kind words! I really encourage me a lot!
Congratulation! That's amazing ❤ I absolutely love your videos and your recipes, tried some already and it was delicious ❤
Thank you so much! It means so much to me!
Congratulations! The traditional foods, cooking, and fermenting methods of my heritage are of great interest to me here in America. I am currently experimenting and learning about using koji and nukazuke, before moving onto sake kasu. Your videos have been helpful and inspiring and I’m looking forward to what you will offer next. On a recent trip to Japan it was evident that so many of these food traditions are changing and I don’t want to loose them, so I keep them alive by learning and sharing them with friends.
Thank you for being part of my journy!! Please continue to share your wonderful interest and cooking with others!
I hope you and your family are staying safe! ((hugs))
Welcome to Boston!
that's a huge step, congratulations! sugoi! also, i've had a lot of different breakfasts, from huge American spreads to full English to French croissants et cafe to Mexican chilaquiles, and they're all delicious and good and whatever but my god, when i visited Japan this summer, i finally had the privilege of eating a traditional Japanese breakfast every day and there's nothing like it in the world. it is hands-down the best there is. i wasn't even that skeptical of eating rice and pickles and fish for breakfast, and i still wasn't expecting it to be that good. we had miso soup one day with winter melon in it-- melon! it was insanely good.
i think, really, the challenge is assembling all the side dishes, and the fact that possibly outside of Japan or other coastal regions, there is not a robust fish culture-- for example, we don't have those handy fish-grillers as part of our stoves here in the US... i wish we did!! but i think at the very least, both in Japan and abroad, easy access to pre-made pickles and simple salads that could be bought in bulk and then portioned out throughout the week would make it easy for people to enjoy the cuisine even if they're not ready to undertake making those dishes themselves. i'll have to look into my local Japanese market and see what they have on offer; it's not too far away. i would imagine that these products are available in convenience stores for you, though? i mean, the Japanese people are famously very busy, so i would understand still not being able to enjoy a traditional breakfast, but i wonder. i wonder!
anyway, happy new year and best of luck with your work going forward! fight-o!
Yes, that's a great suggestion! Like you said, ingredients and tools are challenging if I try to share Japanese cooking globally, but the way you said it makes it a lot easier to follow! Thank you so much!
What more you might do could include some activity that leaves a visible impact. Food eaten disappears and tableware collected is shelved away. But if you can think of something that visibly stays after the action, that could help self-perpetuate into a routine.
In my mind, reincorporating healthy traditional lifestyle practices in modern everyday life is a noble pursuit. In many ways modern society is not easily compatible with traditional culture. In some ways it is fundamentally incompatible. It also is difficult to change habits. Some practices are not readily accessible either, especially when the change entails a qualitative change in lifestyle. I think overcoming these hurdles is entirely an aesthetic question.
Thank you very much for insightful opinions. I learned a lot. What I'm planning next year is sort of related to "leaving a visible impact." I'm glad to hear your thoughts!
I enjoy Japanese cooking, because I find it has helped me with my weight management and I eat less “ready to eat” or fast food.
I'm glad to hear this! Thank you!
Congratulations! 🎉 I think preserving traditional cooking in all cultures is so important. 日本の食べ物は私たちに教えるのために、ありがとうございました。😊 (that’s probably not grammatically correct 🥲 but I hope you know what I mean)
Your Japanese is perfect! I can understand it and feel your kindness through the words. ありがとう！
Congratulations! So incredibly proud for you!
Thank you so much!!
Wow ur food looks amazing very good 👍😍👍
Miwa thank you for the videos. Could you please let me know how many gm of cooked rice in the bowl, you eat AM and PM. I am trying to get healthy and control my portion sizes. I saw in one of your videos from 2021 what you eat a day, and it looks perfect. Thank you for the help.
I think the biggest problem as a Japanese cuisine lover is the ingredients availability. If I had Japanese ingredients in my local supermarket, I'd be cooking Japanese food everyday! Also, providing Japanese ingredients can enrich Japanese economy. Believe me there are a lot of ppl who want to buy Japanese ingredients if they're available. So maybe the Japanese goverment can somehow contract supermarket brands around the world to export Japanese ingredients. I live in Portugal by the way.
I think almost everything can buy online nowadays, but they are sooo expensive. There should be more products easily accessible for you in Portugal! Thank you very much for your idea!
@@MiwasJapaneseCooking yea exactly I can find ingredients online and in some specialised shops, but as you said it's so expensive it becomes only a luxury to do every now and then, but not for daily use. I lived in Tokyo before, so I know the real price of Japanese ingredients and can't justify spending so much on everyday cooking. Please help 🙏🏼🤍 thank you very much!
Hm I'm not sure, the staples like Miso, soy sauce, mirin etc are easily available via specialised Asian food websites (I use go asia). For vegetables it's best to cook with what you have on hand anyway, instead of importing some lifeless veggies that have travelled half the world.
@@Smittenhamster soy sauce, mirin and rice vinegar are always available because they can be shipped and stored easily since they have a long shelf life. But I can never find miso, dashi, natto, ume boshi and Japanese pickles in general. Even when I (once in a blue moon) find it, it's usually not the same quality as the one you'd find in Japan.
@@yuzan3607 hmmmm I agree with selection in stores but online it's the same for you?
It is so sad how we are loosing our identity and culture. It is the same in Spain.
Congratulations!🎉
Your vision is so powerful! I’m a slow food activist and what you describe warms my heart and is part of our vision for future food. Maybe you are interested in this movement, we want to save food traditions as recipes and ingredients, but also promote good clean and fair food for everyone. We are all over the world and there is a chapter in Japan.
Every day I have a breakfast of salted grilled salmon or another fish like eel, saba, cod, etc., natto, rice, tsukemono, and miso soup. I make a bento with rice, tofu (often simmered in various ways), a second protein like an egg, tamagoyaki, edamame, etc. and some vegetables, often blanched, pickled, simmered, or stir fried. I sometimes bring some miso soup in a thermos with that. For supper, I have something like fried rice, cold soba with mentsuyu, yakisoba, okonomiyaki (at home style, not restaurant), takikomi gohan, yasai itame, etc. Sometimes I add cold tofu or miso soup. Often I will make onigiri or norimaki when going out or for a potluck. I'm 1/4 Japanese, but my mother is half Japanese and my grandmother was fully Japanese so these traditions are very dear to me. Even living in Canada I can find all the ingredients I need, and youtube channels like this, as well as recipe sites and books are largely what can keep these traditions alive! Thanks for all your hard work :)
Wow! That's wonderful! Your older generation must be very proud of you. Please continue to share your cooking to the world with me!
@@MiwasJapaneseCooking They are! I was also fortunate enough to learn some recipes from my grandmother before she died. She came to Canada in the early 1960s and grew up in the 1930s and 1940s, so her recipes were very traditional. Those are moments and recipes that I treasure dearly
Congratulations !!! All the best in 2024 !
I'm not Japanese but I often cook and eat Japanese foods and my daily breakfast is a normally a traditional Japanese breakfast. I even make my own Dashi stock and keep it in the freezer so it's quick and easy to make breakfast in the morning. I have felt healthier eating more natural foods and cooking for myself rather than eating things like toast, eggs, bacon, cereal, etc.
These days everyone is really busy, I think in these times its natural that people would gravitate towards foods that are quicker to make
Yes, that's true. I always wonder how that happens. 😭
@@MiwasJapaneseCooking I think what's happening to food is related to what's happening to lifestyle in general, it has to do with business and too much focus on productivity and efficiency. Humans are not machines.
I just watched this video which I found useful ua-cam.com/video/Op2ExIPq7_s/v-deo.html
You could make Yatai Breakfast kart. Not just a stall @ Fushimi Inari. A Real Breakfast Yatai. Then could go to any festival, or could do Special Event, Day before wedding, Corporate Gathering. Only on Sunday! Have kids help. IF had Breakfast Yatai could go everywhere to keep traditon alive. Yes, I am genious.
omg congratulations!!
Congratulations! おめでとうございますよ。
Inflammatory diseases like psoriasis or eczema triggered by infections are really reducing the quality of life. Today, when I experience flare ups, I tend to go towards japanese and asian cooking. My country tends to weight alcohol consumption heigh, and now I am suffering from the aftermaths of ingestion too much of the bad bacteria. So my skin is rather inflammed, my psoriasis have never been this bad after a strep. Last time, 2019, I had a strep, my psoriasis got worse. Thanks to super foods like, shio koji, miso, kimchi, natto etc., my skin and internal organs was reliefed. I swear to this - Everyone who adapts, knows how to adapt, a healthy diet such as a japanese (asian) diet, will realize the benefits. Make it a lifestyle and not temporary (as I did). Now I am stuck in the loop and waiting for the effects of a healthy diet. Today I decided to use food as medicine.. And damn it tastes well. Thank you so much for teaching me about a lifestyle incorporating healthy foods and mental stableness. My next goal is to invite my dad to this type of lifestyle, who suffers from HS, gut diseases and more.
Who has time to make traditional Japanese food at home? That requires someone who either doesn't work outside the home or has part-time hours. The challenge is to eat a healthy diet even when both partners work. It may have worked in the past when there was such a thing as housewives or grandmothers who lived with the family, but those days are gone.
Both my partner and I work full time. We prep a ton of stuff on Sunday and basically heat up or put together during the week.
Like you said we tried cooking each day and it was terrible so we cook only one day a week and that’s been the holy grail way to do things.
This is happening not only in Japan but everywhere. I think that is due to the Hollywod films, series and multinational food corporations. We became more and more like the US, we adopt the US "culture" and forget about our national traditions
If I want to feel warm and healthy, I cook japanese dishes
Same here!! 😍
Thank you for sharing!
凄い！おめでとうございました🎉
ありがとうございます！
I often find food culture most alive in expat immigrant groups. They become fossilized in language and food traditions because they are no longer in intimate contact with their country of origin. My great aunt was a Japanese war bride (WW2). She cooked Japanese style from that era until her passing, remaining slim and healthy. So did the other Japanese ladies of that era she knew. I lived in Japan in 1890's and go back often. I find the westernization of the diet horrific with dire health consequences emerging. Of course now we have instant contact so perhaps these well preserved culture time capsules will no longer exist.
I'm not sure, but maybe a fusion of western ingredients making japanese type dishes.
Are you and your family okay after the earthquake!? 😢🙏
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Imagine every people eating bread(western civilization) and not rice anymore..this is global assimilation