By: Jared Earnshaw
Cory Schentag
Spring Food (haru)
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Made to be colourful and happy.
Have a happy vibe to them.
The foods mainly served in spring are:
 hinachirashi (colourful sushi)
 hina-arare (coloured rice crackers)
 ushio-jiru (clam soup)
 sakura-mochi (sweet pink rice cakes)
Summer Food (natsu)
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The most popular summer food is cold noodles.
The most common cold noodles are hiyashi chuka
and zaru soba.
Hiyashi chuka is a cold bowl and ramen noodles.
Zaru soba is a cold bowl of soba noodles.
Another popular summer food is hiyayakko (tofu
squares).
Fall Food (aki)
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Around this time of year the foods are usually
more warm.
Some common meals are mushroom soup and
matsutake gohan.
Matsutake gohan is seasoned rice cooked with
matsutake mushrooms.
Kuri gohan is also another food.
“Kuri” is the japanese word for chestnut.
Winter Food (fuyu)
People like hot foods a lot in this time of year.
 Soups are very commonly ate during winter.
 Oden is a very popular stew.
 Other soups are miso soup and ramen.
 Nikuman is another food. It is a steamed cake with
seasoned ground pork filling.
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Chopsticks
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Chopsticks are never left sticking vertically into
rice because this resembles an incense.
Using chopsticks to spear your food is highly
frowned upon.
It is very bad manners to bite on your chopsticks.
Commonly made of bamboo or plastic. Can also
be made of metal, bone, ivory, and wood.
Japanese chopsticks are pointed at the end.
Interesting Facts
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You can make art out of sushi.
Bibliography
http://japanesefood.about.com
 www.wikipedia.com
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