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Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth-Century Korea

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When you believe the size of Korea’s population and the breadth of its territory, it’s easy to see that this small region has played a disproportionately large role in twentieth-century history. The peninsula has experienced colonial submission by the hands of Japan, occupation by the US and the Soviet Union, war, and a national division that continues as of late.
 
Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War traces these developments as they played out in an peculiar sphere: Korea’s national cuisine, which is savored for its diversity of ingredients and flavor. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka shows that many foods and dietary practices identified as Korean have been created or influenced by its colonial encounters, and she uncovers how the military and the Cold War had an affect on diet in both the North and South. Surveying the manufacture and consumption of rice and soy sauce, the upward push of restaurants, wartime food, and the 1990s famine that still affects North Korea, Cwiertka illuminates the persistent legacy of Japanese rule and the consequences of armed conflicts and the Cold War. Bringing us closer to the Korean people and their day-to-day lives, this book shines new light on essential issues within the social history of this peninsula.

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