The Taste of the Enemy: Food and Warfare in Asia, 1937-1953

Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka is Europe’s premier expert on food culture in modern Japan. She is the author of three books, including Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, Kaiseki Recipes: Secrets of Japanese Cuisine, and Asian Food: the Global and the Local. Along with the landscape, climate and language, food constitutes the most immediate articulation of the unfamiliar for soldiers fighting on a foreign soil. By tracing subsistence channels of the Japanese, American and Korean forces, this talk seeks to identify the relationships that developed during the 1940s and early 1950s between the military and the civilian populations.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG, the East Asia Center, the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the History Dept. and the IHC.

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