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Eric C. Rath is Professor of Premodern Japanese History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Japan’s Cuisines: Food, Place and Identity (Reaktion Books, 2016) and Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan (2010).
Deploying gorgeous visual material and exquisite detail from over a millennia of Chinese and Japanese written sources, Rath historicizes, regionalizes, and denationalizes the contested story of the birth and transformation of various kinds of sushi. He also shows how this modest dish went global as it acquired substantial cultural capital in the late twentieth century. A lucid and beautifully produced book. --Krishnendu Ray, chair, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, NYU Steinhardt Without a doubt the most definitive book I have ever read on what is now one of the world's most popular foods. Rath's Oishii is not only well-written and packed with fascinating, delicious information, but easy to read as well. It belongs on the bookshelf of any lover of good food. --Ken Hom, OBE, author, chef, and TV presenter
