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‘From Garbage to Art: Comfort, Convenience and Environmental Consciousness in Japan’ (sponsored by MEARC)

by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka | Dec 17, 2012 | Other projects

With Dr. E. Machotka The objective of this project is to reconstruct the processes that are at the root of the growing environmental awareness in Japan, from the point of its inculcation in the 1990s to the present day. The project rests on two pillars: 1) the...

What soy sauce can teach us about the history of South Korea (December 2012)

by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka | Dec 14, 2012 | Media

‘Three books published within a year – that happens only once in a lifetime!’ This was the reaction of Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, on the publication of Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War, one of her three new books. The...

Japans volksvoedsel is helemaal geen sushi maar curry (Trouw, April 2007)

by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka | Apr 7, 2007 | Media

Al mijn kookleven lang ben ik jaloers op Japanners: slanke, nette mensen met een traditie van eeuwen op het gebied van koken. Duizenden jaren al poetsen die Japanners aan hun afwijkende messen en hun recepten, hun altijd verse ingrediënten die ook altijd van...
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