[Sca-cooks] Japanese breakfast

[Ian Kusz]

Why were chickens considered sacred?  According to what belief system, or is
it just the ever-present and sometimes-vague, "folklore?"

I don't recall hearing about this in anything I've read on either Buddhism
or Shinto....

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Elaine Koogler <kiridono at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, the statement is pretty accurate...the Portuguese introduced
> western foods in the 16th century, and there is, in at least one period
> cookbook, a recipe that utilizes western techniques.  The second reference
> is to when Admiral Perry opened Japanese ports near the end of the 19th
> century...and, because there were more westerners in Japan, their foods
> followed.
>
> The only questionable statement has to do with beef which, prior to Japan
> become almost entirely Buddhist, was allowed.  Then, as time went on, it
> was
> still eaten occasionally when people could get it...claiming it was for
> medicinal purposes!  And this was done by the priests and monks, but by the
> nobility as well.  As was the case 'most everywhere in the world, the poor
> ate mostly grains, veggies and the fish they could catch.  This all comes
> from Ishige Naomichi.  *The History and Culture of Japanese Food.*
>
> Kiri
>
>
> >>
> >> Johnnae
> >>
> >
> > This was the part that caught my eye:
> >
> >  Western foods made inroads into the Japanese diet during the 16th
> century,
> >> when Portuguese traders introduced eggs. (Until then, chickens had been
> >> considered sacred, so neither they nor their eggs were eaten.) By the
> end of
> >> the 19th century, people all over Japan had begun embracing even more
> >> Western foods, like beef (which had also been banned for the previous
> 1,200
> >> years)...
> >>
> >
> > I'd never heard either of these before.  Has anybody else?  Any idea how
> > true these assertions are?
> >
> > Sandra
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