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Valentine has sex with her long-time client Enzo Alighieri at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. They engage in passionate sex where Enzo pleasures Valentine and brings her to orgasm. Valentine enjoys her work as a courtesan and finds sexual pleasure in serving her clients, which is considered taboo in her profession. The excerpt then provides background on Valentine, who grew up in a lower middle-class family in Van Nuys, California and her life trajectory has involved both dull and perverse experiences.
The city council is considering a proposal to rezone several commercial properties to allow for high-density residential development. This would permit the construction of apartment buildings with up to 200 units each on three parcels near the downtown area. Some residents have expressed concerns about increased traffic and changes to the neighborhood character from the larger residential buildings.
This tale tells the story of a restless Prince who sneaks out of the palace one night to seek adventure. He travels through a forest and comes upon a small hut surrounded by a flock of geese. Hungry, the Prince decides to steal one of the geese to eat. However, his actions have unintended consequences.
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This document provides a 10-year development plan and project list for the Three Rivers Area Enterprise Park in Michigan. It outlines 8 projects to further develop the industrial park, including completing a road extension, installing a walking trail, expanding infrastructure in phases, acquiring additional land, and preparing for future building construction. The total estimated cost of these projects is $2.3 million, which will be funded through tax increment financing using a portion of increased property taxes from new businesses in the park. A public hearing will be held on December 4th, 2012 to review and renew the development plan.
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Praise for
JAPANESE WOMEN DON’T GET OLD OR FAT
“Moriyama walks readers through creating a ‘Tokyo kitchen’
in their own home—rice cooker and wok are optional—and
intersperses her argument for Japanese culinary supremacy
with recipes.…The result: a delicious way to stay healthy.”
—Washington Post
“For weight loss, I recommend Japanese Women Don’t Get Old
or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen, by Naomi
Moriyama and William Doyle. One-upping a certain French
woman who boasted about staying thin, Moriyama reveals
seven secrets of how Japanese women avoid adding pounds
and prolong their life.” —goodhousekeeping.com
“Thanks to Moriyama and Doyle, readers can learn from an
insider raised in Japan who has lived in America for quite a
while. Readers will learn the secrets of Japanese cooking [and]
a more active lifestyle…even the most hesitant readers will
find their passion for the wonderful taste and aroma of
Japanese dishes irresistible and will be tempted to try some.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Just about all the recipes come by way of Moriyama’s mother,
Chizuko, whom Moriyama describes as a master of ‘Japan’s
greatest food secret of all: home cooking.’ Chizuko’s motto is
‘I use ingredients from the mountains, the oceans and the
earth.’ If that isn’t the Zen of cooking, what is? So pass the
bonito flakes. I’ll skip the Camembert, thanks.”
—AARP Magazine online
“It’s well known that Japanese women have the lowest obesity
rate in the industrialized world (3%) and the highest life ex-
pectancy (85 years), and that their cuisine is based on
simplicity. Tokyo native Moriyama puts a human face on this
phenomenon, that of her mother, Chizuko, in this well-
organized, persuasive introduction to a non-Western
everyday cooking plan.” —Publishers Weekly
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“After the stodgy excesses of Yuletide, Japanese Women Don’t
Get Old or Fat will seem like spring come early. The book
combines personal memoir…a section for the Samurai in
your life, and, naturally, plenty of recipes.”
—Bookseller (UK)
“If you need inspiration to change your diet, spending a
couple of hours with Naomi Moriyama should do the trick.
She has a slight (but not too skinny) frame, perfect skin, lots of
energy and gleaming hair. She looks 20 years younger than
her real age of 45. When buying alcohol, she is often asked for
ID, and is regularly quizzed on which university she attends.
She is a living example of what most women her age dream
of.…Japanese people, especially women, are the healthiest in
the world.” —Telegraph (UK)
“Moriyama’s book is a compelling wake-up call.…She gives
an easy guide to setting up your own little Tokyo kitchen,
with more than 30 recipes handed down from her mother,
about whom she writes with great affection. Likewise, she
writes about Tokyo in a way that makes you want to get there
and into the first noodle house you see. Her descriptions of
food and mood would lure the most reluctant gourmet
adventurer.…Moriyama puts a human face on facts, alternat-
ing between personal stories, interesting snippets of Japanese
history and the latest research on food and health from a
plethora of experts.” —Sunday Telegraph (Australia)
“Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle have laid out a con-
vincing and tasty argument for cooking the Japanese way in
their book…easy to accomplish in your own kitchen.”
—Santa Cruz Sentinel
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Japanese Women
Don’t Get Old or Fat
SECRETS OF MY MOTHER’S TOKYO KITCHEN
Naomi Moriyama
and William Doyle
D E LTA T R A D E PA P E R B A C K
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Contents
Introduction 1
1: My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen 11
2: In a Japanese Tangerine Forest 29
3: Seven Secrets from My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen 37
4: How to Start Your Tokyo Kitchen 67
5: The Seven Pillars of Japanese Home Cooking 123
6: The Samurai Diet 231
Epilogue: The Great Food Offering 243
Source Notes 249
Resources 261
Recipe Index 265
Acknowledgments 267
Index 269
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I just want to get healthy.
I want to take better care of myself.
I would like to start eating healthier. I don’t want all that pasta.
I would like to start eating Japanese food.
—Bill Murray as Bob Harris,
in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation
There is a land where women live longer than everyone else
on Earth.
It is a place where obesity is the lowest in the developed
world.
Where forty-year-old women look like they are twenty.
It is a land where women enjoy some of the world’s most
delicious food, yet they have obesity rates of only 3 percent—less
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than one third that of French women . . . and less than one
tenth that of American women.
It is a country of women obsessed with enjoying life—and
mastering the art of healthy eating. It is a highly industrial-
ized nation that is the second-largest economic power in the
world.
The country is Japan.
And something incredible is happening there.
JAPAN AND THE GLOBAL OBESITY EPIDEMIC
Right now, the world is suffering an obesity crisis that is afflict-
ing hundreds of millions of people.
In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a
“global obesity epidemic,” with more than 1 billion adults
overweight—and at least 300 million of them obese, with obe-
sity defined as having a body mass index, or BMI, of over 30.
Obesity, announced the WHO, “is a major contributor to the
global burden of chronic disease and disability.”
The WHO reports that the obesity epidemic is rapidly
spreading beyond the United States and Western Europe
into Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and
the developing world. “It’s universal,” said Neville Rigby,
policy director of the WHO’s International Obesity Task
Force. “It has become a fully global epidemic, indeed, a pan-
demic.”
There is scientific debate over the exact number of deaths
attributable each year to obesity, but there is little dispute that a
public health crisis is under way.
The news is alarming, and it’s getting worse:
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• A striking 34 percent of adult American women are obese.
More than 20 percent of American men, and English and
German men and women, are obese.
• Obesity in French women and men climbed from approxi-
mately 8 percent in 1997 to 11 percent in 2003, an increase of
almost 40 percent.
• The U.S. National Institutes of Health estimates that obesity
and overweight cost the nation an estimated $117 billion in
direct medical costs and indirect costs, such as lost wages due
to illness. This is more than double the current federal budget
for homeland security.
• In a June 2, 2005 press briefing, Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding,
director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, linked obesity to an increased risk of hyper-
tension, diabetes, renal failure, colon cancer, postmenopausal
breast cancer, gallbladder cancer, uterine cancer, arthritis,
sleep disturbances and breathing problems, as well as to
problems with childbearing and premature birth.
• The state of California alone estimates its obesity-related costs
at $21.7 billion a year, leading its health and human services
secretary to declare in 2005 that “the obesity epidemic is more
than a public health crisis, it is an economic crisis.”
• Obesity in U.S. children has tripled in the last quarter century.
“It boggles my mind,” said Dr. William Klish, head of the
department of medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital. “When
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I started in the 1960s and early ’70s,” he told the Associated
Press in early 2005, “we never ever saw a case of type 2 dia-
betes, adult-onset diabetes, in children. Now, we’re making
the diagnosis routinely.”
• In Australia, surgeons are struggling to cope with the
demand for lap-band stomach operations for obese chil-
dren. “I think epidemic’s almost too polite a word,” Dr.
George Fielding told the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons conference in 2005. He prefers to call it a
plague. Children of twelve, thirteen, and fourteen are “all
getting the diseases their grandparents have,” he said,
“they’re getting diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep
apnea, and heart disease at rates that would be unbeliev-
able ten years ago.”
• The aircraft manufacturer Boeing is reengineering its
designs to accommodate heavier passengers and resulting
higher fuel costs. The new Boeing 7E7 aircraft, due in 2008,
will feature wider aisles and seats and new structural mate-
rial designed, in the words of a Boeing spokesperson, to
“counteract the increasing weight of passengers.”
But in the midst of this global obesity crisis, the nation of
Japan has managed to become, by several key criteria, the
healthiest nation in the world.
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chapter 1
My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen
The people assemble in joy;
Food and drink is abundant.
For all generations without end,
Day by day ever more flourishing,
Until myriads of years hence
The pleasure will not cease.
—Ancient Japanese blessing
My mother, Chizuko, sends me e-mails from Tokyo all the
time.
She sends them from her mobile phone—when she’s in the
kitchen or the grocery store, when she’s on line to buy tickets to
a show, or when she’s waiting for a train in a Tokyo subway
station.
She wants to know how my husband, Billy, and I are doing,
when we’re coming over to visit—and what we’re eating.
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Naomi’s mother’s Tokyo kitchen was an out-of-body
experience.
First was its size. No bigger than a modest-size walk-in
closet, it yielded a cornucopia of preciously and precisely
stacked ingredients and cooking accoutrements. Trying to
open a drawer or cupboard put my clandestine 4 A.M. jet-
lagged forays at risk. I feared that I could suffer a mighty
burial by the kitchen’s contents at any moment.
Second was what came out of the kitchen. I have never in
my adult life indulged, tried and enjoyed the kind of epi-
curean delights placed in front of me. I hate fish, but not
from Naomi’s mother’s Tokyo kitchen. I ate cooked pumpkin
in bewilderment, wondering where in that kitchen the
pumpkin could have been. I ate green leaf-like mountains of
something, only to realize that seaweed could taste good.
Third and most significant of all, was the mistress of this
place (Chizuko Moriyama). Barely five feet, always smiling,
nodding and bowing to me (due to a significant language
barrier), she made me want to eat all of her food.
I hope to return someday, only en famille. I am hopeful
she will get my three boys to eat fish.
—Susan D. Plagemann, Vice President, Publisher, Marie Claire magazine,
and visitor to my mother’s Tokyo kitchen
goes grocery shopping. Only after she’s looked over the mar-
ket’s offerings and seen what looks fresh and fabulous that day
does she devise her menu plan. For perishables, “freshness” is a
Tokyo kitchen mantra. Whether it is fish, fruits, vegetables, or
herbs, if it is in season and available fresh, that’s what Japanese
women buy. If it’s not fresh, they stay away.
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For a while, when our family lived in Kawasaki, a city next
to Tokyo where my father had a job as an engineer at a chemi-
cal company, we even grew some vegetables next to our flower
beds. We had a little garden patch, planted with corn, parsley,
tomatoes, and eggplant, and we had a fig tree growing outside
the kitchen windows, so close that we could almost reach out
and pick the fruit without even going outside.
We also had chickens. We were the only family in the
neighborhood with chickens running around the backyard!
Actually, they were a bantam mini-chicken creature of the
type known as “chabo,” which have been kept as house pets
in Japan ever since the early days of Edo (old Tokyo), when
someone started importing them from what is now Vietnam.
The chabo used to dig little holes in our garden with their
feet, and sit in them among the flower bushes, so still they
looked like they were meditating. Every morning my sister
and I would go out to gather the eggs, which were sometimes
so newly laid that they were warm to the touch, and my mom
would cook them for us. She adored those little chabo chick-
ens. Although I didn’t have any particular feeling for them at
the time, looking back I realize that the chabo kept us con-
nected to nature in the midst of the steel plants, oil refineries,
and factories that were not far away. The eggs they laid and
the fruits and vegetables we grew reflected my mother’s ded-
ication to cooking with the freshest possible ingredients.
My mom was probably the first Japanese housewife to own
an imported General Electric refrigerator. It was the second
largest piece of furniture—after the piano—in our apartment.
It was too big for a Japanese-size kitchen, so it had to sit out-
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side, sort of on the edge of our dining room. But cooking and
having fresh ingredients were such passions of hers that she
had to have that refrigerator, outsize as it was.
A LOVE-PACKED LUNCH BOX
From ages twelve to eighteen, my younger sister, Miki, and I
went to an all-girls private school in Kawasaki.
On the first day of school all the mothers and daughters
were seated in the auditorium and a teacher at the podium
made an orientation speech:
We request that every mother make lunch for your
daughter every day.
Our main theme at this school is to help our students
learn to be giving and loving. One of the ways your
daughter learns this is from your love-packed lunch box.
We understand that there might be times when a
mother has an emergency and cannot prepare lunch. We
provide a sandwich and lunch box stand at school, but it
is not for every day. It is for only occasional uses when it
cannot be avoided.
My mother took this speech very seriously.
For years, she woke up at 6 a.m. and cooked small portions of
fish, veggies, eggs, and meat for us, sliced them up, and packed
them neatly and elegantly along with a sheet of nori seaweed
over a bed of rice in a small airtight Tupperware lunch box.
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She wrapped up the lunch in a cloth napkin with my
name and flowers embroidered in a corner. She made these
napkins too.
Every day the lunch box contained different side dishes,
sandwiches, or rice balls. She made every lunch box with total
dedication and passion.
One day, I untied the napkin, opened the plastic wrap, and
started eating a sandwich. I was surprised to find a sheet of
nori seaweed on top of the ham and cheese.
My schoolmates and I were accustomed to British-style sand-
wiches, with lettuce, thinly sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, ham,
and cheese. Nori seaweed was something we ate in Japanese
dishes, never in a sandwich. As a self-conscious teenager, I was
awfully embarrassed to be seen eating that seaweed in front of
my schoolmates.
I went home and said to my mother, “Nobody puts seaweed
in a sandwich!”
She said, “Well, seaweed is good for you, but I will try not to
do it again.”
Today I realize I was too young to appreciate her creativity.
Mom’s Carrot-Tofu Dish
SERVES 4
Loaded with fragrant toasted and ground sesame seeds, this
carrot-tofu mixture is one of my favorite dishes. It’s my mother’s
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unique creation and was a star side dish in my lunch box at high
school. While I often eat it hot with freshly cooked rice, it tastes won-
derful when cold, especially on toasted whole grain bread. Delicious!
Two 3-x-5-inch rectangles usu-age tofu (thin-fried tofu)
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
2 teaspoons sake
2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon canola oil or rice bran oil
6 cups matchsticks of carrot (from about 5 medium
carrots)
1/3 cup toasted and ground white sesame seeds
(page 111)
2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
1. Bring a small saucepan of water to a boil. Add the usu-age tofu
and gently simmer over medium heat, turning occasionally, for
1 minute; drain (this will remove excess oil). Cut the usu-age
tofu diagonally in half and slice each half into thin strips.
2. Combine the vinegar, sugar, sake, soy, and salt in a small bowl.
Stir until the sugar has dissolved.
3. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add the carrots
and usu-age tofu strips and sauté until the carrots are crisp-
tender, about 3 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and
add the soy mixture. Cook the carrots and tofu for 2 more min-
utes, or until tender (but not too soft). Turn off the heat, stir in
the sesame seeds, and drizzle with the toasted sesame oil.
4. Transfer to a small serving dish.