Talk:Horizon:Volume 8C Chapter 73

It's interesting (and infuriating) how japanese people see Western cuisine as a whole from a very small sample with some misconceptions, then extrapolate from there; they also take their own dishes out of context and compare apples with pranges. While mainly among the poor it was vey common to just mix whatever they had on hand in order to stave off hunger, there are a lot of creative dishes, and even among the commoners it was not unusual in the least for each region to have not only a huge array of local dishes, but also basic broths, stocks and base recipes which were then used as a base for more elaborate dishes in the same way Asama describes the "more varied" japanese cooking. A broth made with chicken bones isn't used in the same way as one made with beef bones, with pork bones or with fish bones, neither are those used in the same way as ones made with meat-on-bone or just meat.--Kemm (talk)