kosher 復習

　日本で貴重な体験ができたようです。

Arigatou, Japan

This incident was only the beginning of an important journey for me, a voyage that took place across three weeks in central-southern Japan.

Early on in my first homestay, I faced a challenging foe: nattō, fermented soybeans, was served to me for breakfast. Such a repulsive taste belonged to one of a plethora of foods I would never have thought of trying back home.

I admit it, I barely ate the nattō. It was too gross (that would have been the better time to puke). Other foods, however, I found to be quite delicious, such as pork ramen, swordfish, and “wieneryaki,” a modified version of takoyaki, a ball-shaped food containing tako, or octopus, to have have a pork wiener cooked inside it instead.

As someone who grew up in a kosher household, I never would have expected myself to ever eat these foods. However, sampling new foods gave me the opportunity to experience different flavor combinations and truly discover the meaning of umami.
　
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http://www.campustimes.org/2017/04/23/arigatou-japan/

　本日はkosher /kō′shər/について調べました。Oxford Dictionary of English(Second Edition Reserved, Oxford University Press)には、 “satisfying the requirements of Jewish law”と “genuine and legitimate”と定義されておりました。語源はヘブライ語です。『ジーニアス英和辞典』（第五版，大修館）で調べたところ、「（ユダヤ教）（食物，特に肉が）（おきてに従って処置した）適法な，清浄な」と「（店などが）適法の食材を販売している」と載っておりました。

　文中では「本物の」や「きちんとした」のような意味合いで使用されているように思います。（Gomez）