Ruth Pretty Cooking at Springfield or The Tea Ceremony and Womens Empowerment in Modern Japan

Ruth Pretty Cooking at Springfield

Author: Ruth Pretty

Ruth Pretty is a name associated with great food and good times. The creative force behind Ruth Pretty Catering and the Ruth Pretty Cooking School, Ruth's life truly revolves around wonderful food. As you would expect, being entertained at the Pretty home in Springfield is always memorable. Ruth Pretty Cooking at Springfield is scattered with stories and anecdotes about a lifetime associated with restaurants and catering. Ruth's passion for fresh ingredients takes you around local producers, seeking the finest cheeses, fruit and vegetables. Photographed in and out of Ruth's elegant house and garden, experience the style of a superb cook -- relaxed and at home with family and friends. From formal dinners to birthday parties, from pizza parties in the garden to weddings and picnics, this is a book all food lovers will cherish.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	06
	A Big Night In	10
	Birthdays	46
	A Wood-fired Oven	67
	Champagne Interludes	80
	Christmas Day	93
	Boxing Day	110
	Grazing	125
	Cakes	146
	Weddings at Home	163
	Larder	184
	Index	190

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The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan (Anthropology of Asia Series): Bodies Re-presenting the Past

Author: Etsuko Kato

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity whilst being, in turn, transformed by it.

Drawing on Foucault's concept of discipline and focusing primarily on the body, this book illuminates how female ceremony practitioners have empowered themselves through the unique way of using their bodies. In particular the book examines:

* The relationship between the tea ceremony and the body
* Myths surrounding the body
* Body discipline
* Postwar effects on the tea ceremony
* Tea ceremony networks
* Meaning of the ceremony in the lives of women

By combining anthropological observation with historical examination of the tea ceremony, this book radically revises mainstream discourses surrounding women and the tea ceremony in Japan. It will prove of interest to scholars of Japanese Studies, Gender Studies and anthropology alike.