おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
日本のフォーチュンクッキーについて。
実は日本由来なんだって。知らなかったよ。
mom and pop
意味 (米· くだけて) 夫婦 [家族] だけで営業している
The streets leading to vermillion gates of Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Shrine are filled with mom and pop shops. Vendors sell shaved ice, grilled eels on skewers, lacquered chopsticks, and sweet potatoes baked over red-hot coals. But one man in a crisp white cap is making and selling cookies that don’t look Japanese at all.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/fortune-cookies/
ほえー！こんな言い方するんだ！
pithy
意味 〈表現などが〉簡潔で要を得た, 端的な; 力強い; 含蓄のある.
Fortune cookies—that sweet treat served with a side of pithy wisdom—are such a staple in Chinese-American restaurants that many diners are surprised to learn they are not from China. Often described as an invention of immigrants in California, they can in fact be traced back to Japan, where bakers such as Matsuhisa still make the original version, known as tsujiura senbei or omikuji senbei. “These have been around since the Edo period,” Matsuhisa says.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/fortune-cookies/
中国由来だと思ってたわー。食べ物の中に食べられない物を入れるのが日本っぽくないなって、記事読んでもしばらく信じられなかったw
xenophobic
意味 外国 (人) 嫌いの.
White Americans described their growing presence as a “yellow peril” and passed xenophobic laws in response. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 halted all immigration from China. When industrialists recruited Japanese workers to fill the gap, similar laws soon blocked their arrival, including, eventually, the 1924 Immigration Act that prevented all new immigrants from Asia.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/fortune-cookies/
vacuum
意味 [通例単数形で]空虚, 空白 (状態); 空虚感
In the vacuum, Chinese businesses thrived. “San Francisco’s Chinatown quadrupled its businesses between 1941 and 1943,” writes Jennifer 8. Lee in her book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. “A sharp rise in the demand at Chinese restaurants combined with a lack of Japanese bakers gave Chinese entrepreneurs an opportunity to step in. One of America’s beloved confections emerged from one of the nation’s darkest moments.”
https://bigthink.com/the-past/fortune-cookies/
真珠湾後に日本人不在だったとこで中華がうまいこと広めたと。なーるー。
precinct
意味 ［Ｃ］(かたく)[通例～s]（公共施設· 教会· 大学などの） 敷地, 構内.
Today, you can still find fortune cookies being made traditionally in a few places in Japan. In the precinct around Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Shrine, a handful of family-run shop owners are emphatic that tsujiura senbei are homegrown. “This kind of senbei has existed since the end of the Edo period,” says Masakiyo Go of Souhonke Inariya, whose grandfather founded the shop because he liked the area’s cheerful mood and spiritual atmosphere.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/fortune-cookies/
