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[Immune power up information] Restoration of Japanese food from a critical situation ④
[Immune power up information] We will introduce excerpts from past musubi magazines and books published by Seishoku Publishing. The 25th installment introduces the food education symposium "A rich dining table, Japanese cuisine to the future" from "Musubi Magazine September 5". (XNUMX times in total). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family reunion starts at the dining table
The dining table in the era of food shortages after the end of the war is not a gathering place but a place of discipline At the end of the year before last, the registration of Japanese cuisine as an intangible cultural heritage, which Ms. Iwamura had high hopes for, was realized. Mr. Kumakura has played a central role in the movement toward registration, and since then has been actively working to protect and pass down washoku as a leader of the Washoku Culture National Council.In this magazine, we appeared in the March issue and posted an interview article. Born in XNUMX during the war, Mr. Kumakura spent his childhood eating a lot during the period of food shortages immediately after the end of the war.At her symposium, she experienced a hunger for food and sweets, and looked back, saying, ``I became a researcher of food culture because I was a glutton and wanted to eat delicious food.'' As a child, dining at home wasn't fun, and "it was never a place to hang out," says Kumakura. My parents warned me to eat quietly, sit on my knees while eating, and don't bend my elbows.Far from getting along, it was a place of strict discipline. In the old days, the place where people could get together was not at the dining table, but after dinner, before taking a bath, or in the cool of the evening.In an era when there was no television or radio, there was no shortage of time for family to be together.
“Thinking about Japanese food seriously is not about reviving the gathering.” According to Mr. Kumakura, it was the socialist Toshihiko Sakai (XNUMX-XNUMX), who was active in the Meiji and early Showa eras, who first said that family harmony is found in food.30I mean age.However, as Mr. Kumakura experienced, the dining table was not a place for people to get together until shortly after the war. However, according to the proposal submitted to UNESCO, one of the characteristics of washoku is that, through food, it strengthens community ties at annual events, and strengthens family ties at home—in other words, it forms harmony. It is clearly stated that it is a food culture. In response to Mr. Iwamura's story, Mr. Kumakura said as follows. "The Japanese dining table is the Showa era.30Until the XNUMXs, I was rather malnourished and not very rich.I think that it was after the XNUMXs that the contents of the dining table became really rich.At that time, according to Mr. Iwamura, a great change occurred.That makes sense.I felt that becoming rich and the loss of tradition might be connected in some way." Mr. Kumakura's point is very suggestive: "On the contrary, it was around the time when Japanese cuisine began to collapse when food became a family gathering." In response to Mr. Iwamura's observation that "the nature of the family is changing," Mr. Kumakura said, "I wonder if food can be a force to reshape the family. This is not just Japanese food. I feel that it will become an important point in the future." “Anyway, if we take washoku seriously, in a sense, I think it will be a job to revive the food gathering that has been created in the modern era.”
Oxytocin, the love hormone Dr. Hattori, who is also a medical doctor, explained the function of oxytocin, which is also called the "love hormone," in relation to reunion. According to Ms. Hattori, it has been found that oxytocin, which is mainly studied in the United States, has the effect of restoring the body and mammary glands of postpartum women. "The moment you breastfeed your new baby for the first time, the stimulus releases oxytocin from the pituitary gland, which kicks in your maternal instinct and you're like, 'You're cute, I need to do something about this baby.' Oxytocin also enters the baby through milk, and the baby also likes the mother.” Oxytocin is secreted by both the person stroking the cat and the cat being petted.Oxytocin works in all mammals except wolves. In human terms, oxytocin is secreted by parents and children when the whole family gathers around the table and enjoys a meal. "Child abuse has increased XNUMX times over the past XNUMX years. In order to eliminate abuse, let's all eat together as a family. And women who have children from now on, please be sure to give your own breast milk. ( When you leave it in a nursery school, etc., even if you express the milk, put it in the baby bottle." Mr. Hattori appealed, "I want this year's buzzword award to be oxytocin."
