ABSTRACT
Ever since Japanese immigration to the United States began in earnest in the 1890s, Japanese American cooking has incorporated many new kinds of foods while maintaining a tenacious hold on certain basic foods, styles of cooking, and attitudes toward food. The balance between the wish to adopt new ways of cooking and eating and the wish to keep older ways has shifted somewhat in each generation of Japanese Americans, and in many ways this balancing of contending feelings about food reflects much larger issues in Japanese American history.
