Japanese cuisine (日本料理, nihon-ryōri?) or washoku (和食?) strictly speaking denotes traditional-style Japanese food, before Westernization began in the Meiji period (1868-1912).
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Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or cuisine:
“A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk.
So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)