With these few lines of remarkable self-awareness, the author of this di-ary, a woman of a thousand years ago known to us only as Michitsuna'sMother (936-95?), declares her purpose in writing about her life. Her textis part of a corpus of distinguished literary texts by women in the Heianperiod (794-1185). The texts of this corpus, including T…
The kitchen and cooking have emerged as important differentiated cultural fields in the 21st century. Alongside their important role in the natural and nutritional sciences, they are also in the focus of culinary studies, design, art, gastronomy and agriculture. The heyday of issues of nutrition to which this attests contrasts with the “crisis of food”1 some have discerned and a…