[Sca-cooks] 1637 Hosokawa Sansai Kaiseki Meal

[Elaine Koogler]

That's very possible.  As I said, I believe I have some cookbooks upstairs that
use yam as an ingedient.

Actually, I was more excited about the idea of sushi being served that close to
period.  I had been told by some Japanese teachers staying with one of my
proteges that chirazushi (scattered sushi...a bowl of sushi rice with various
ingredients like egg omelet, raw fish and snow peas scattered over the top) was
period.  I also recollect the lady at Pennsic (having a senior moment...can't
remember her name) who lectured on Japanese food talking about the vinegared
rice being a means of preserving fish (fish and rice pressed together into a
block) and that possibly being the origin of sushi.  But this is the first
actual even close to period reference I've seen!

Kiri

"Decker, Terry D." wrote:

> It could easily be a sweet potato which are believed to have been introduced
> into the region in the middle of the 16th Century by the Portuguese.
>
> Bear
>
> > Taro, perhaps?
> >
> > Adamantius
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