Cool Japanese Kitchen Appliances images

Some cool japanese kitchen appliances images:

Hiroshima


Image by Charles Fairbanks
the Japanese pancake — a postwar reincarnation of a (much different) traditional dish… because after the war food was scarce and fryers were not.

a history of it from www.japanesepancakeworld.com/

"In the late 40′s, Japan was still recovering from the aftermath of World War II. Food was scarce and people turned to Negi-yaki, a snack, to fill their empty stomachs. Particularly in Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb, life was harsh. Food distributed via rations was never enough to save the people from hunger. Kitchen appliances had been long confiscated by the government for manufacturing weapons. Hiroshima citizens picked up metallic sheets from the ruins and baked these wafer-thin pancakes to survive. In an effort to ease their hunger, people stuffed their pancakes with as much chopped cabbage as their make-shift-back-yard-farm permitted. And thus was born the first ‘Hiroshima-yaki.’"