Kazu's Food Blog

Since I already did the presentation of the food related book in the class, I will put the slides of the presentation for the 3rd report of the reading progress.

This is the second report on the reading progress of "The World Food Problem". In the last report , I explained the difference between undernutrition and malnutrition. This time, I will be explaining how researchers around the world tried to measure the extent of hunger .  There has been numerous attemps to measure the extent of hunger in the past, both nationally and internationally. However, it was very difficult to measure it precisely due to its difficulty and complexity of the conducted surveys. The First World Food Survey by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was first conducted in 1946, and there hasn't been much reliable datas before than that. Therefore, some alternatives had to be used when researchers tried to measure the extent of hunger.  The first method was to measure the weight and height of the people in the countries that were said to be suffering from hunger, and compare the numbers with the same datas from the developed countries . It was ...

On this post, I'm going to share the reading progress of the book I have introduced on October 26, 2023 .  The most important thing to note in the first few chapters of the book was the definition of hunger. The first thing that we imagine when we hear the word "hunger" is probably the image of barely fed children in Africa . While that is definitely considered as hunger caused by undernutrition, the author of the book claims that undernutrition is not only the type of hunger .  The other type of hunger is what is so called a "malnutrition" . Malnutrition means one is lacking some sort of essential nutrition in their diet. To make it more understandable, you are simply suffering from undernutrition if you are not eating enough . But let's say you are only eating rice until your stomach is full. You may have enough calories for the day but you would get sick very soon because you can not cover every nutrition that is essential to your body just by eat...

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've done  a restaurant review on Menya Nishi Muku Samurai , but recently I had an opportunity to do an restaurant review analysis on my assingments at uni, so I'd like to share the outcome of the analysis. I analyzed two reviews , one is written, and the other one is visual . The written one that I analyzed was reviewing a restaurant called Dirty French . You can access to the original post on The New York Times here , but there's a paywall. Overall, the review wasn't something I was expecting from a restaurant review. It was very detailed, neutral and professional . The reviewer described wide range of foods on the menu as well as the exterior, interior, and the atmosphere of the restaurant in detail, which allows us to visualize the foods and the atmosphere of the restaurant in our head.  Assuming from the broad, unique and elegant vocabularies that reviewer uses, the readers of this review are wealthy and well educated....