Devouring Japan - Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity

In recent years Japan's cuisine, or washoku, has been eclipsing that of France as the world's most desirable food. UNESCO recognized washoku as an intangible cultural treasure in 2013 and Tokyo boasts more Michelin-starred restaurants than Paris and New York combined. International enthusiasm for Japanese food is not limited to haute cuisine it also encompasses comfort foods like ramen, which has reached cult status in the U.S.