标题: Preserved Egg [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 前天 10:37 标题: Preserved Egg Arati Menon, Why I Moved: For a Life in a Misty Mountain Town in Rural Japan. Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she's found a community and made a home. Condé Nast Traveler, Jan 25, 2025. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-i-moved-to-japan-countryside
("This is part of Why I Moved, a recurring series about Americans building a life abroad")
Note:
(a) I did not read the article. Instead I view photos only, and was intrigued by a photo whose caption reads: "The miso-cured eggs recipe from Water, Wood, and Wild Things Hannah Kirshner" But the following is background:
(i) "Yamanaka Onsen in the Ishikawa Prefecture"
(A) Ishikawa Prefecture 石川県 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_Prefecture
is on Japan's north shore facing Sea of Japan -- and thus a long winter with gutsy wind and heavy snow -- which Japanese consider it hardship to live in and is sparsely populated (compared to south shore).
(B) "Yamanaka Onsen 山中温泉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamanaka_Onsen"
("in the city of [加賀市 City of] Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan")
(ii) "The idea for her book, Water, Wood & Wild Things, an ode to Yamanaka's crafters and cultivators, was born. 'As I moved there to write about the community, I became a part of it—and wanted to stay,' Kirshner says in a conversation with Traveler. Seven years on, Kirshner owns two old homes in a compound in Yamanaka that she's slowly renovating (partly by herself) using ecological design principles and local materials, and now has a white Kei truck that she uses to schlep supplies (and rubble). She is best friends with a pair of crows and her elderly neighbor's Shiba Inu—he [dog] stops for treats as they [Kirshner and crows] pass by on their morning walk—and she spends time gardening and foraging."
(i)
(A) Her last name Kirshner is the American form of German surname Kirschner. The German surname Kirschner is "Saxon or Silesian form of Kürschner furrier."
Contrast another German surname Kirchner (as in former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner (1950-2010; presidency 2003-2007 (died of heart attack)): "from Middle High German kirchenaere sexton" (Both definitions come from Dictionary of American Family Names.)
(B) the book: Hannah Kirshner, Water, Wood & Wild Things; Learning craft and cultivation in a Japanese mountain town. Penguin Random House, 2021. https://hannahkirshner.com/book
(ii) kei truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck
has, as it should, the first letter of "kei" in lowercase. There are two classes of automobiles and motorcycles (called バイク bike) in Japan (2-, 3- or 4-wheel): kei 軽 and ordinary (automobiles) 普通(車; not 重).
(iii) Shiba Inu 柴犬 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu
, where shiba and inu are Japanese pronunciations of the respective kanji.
(iv) The crows are not her pets. See her Instagram posting dated "November 23, 2023" (video). https://www.instagram.com/sweetsnbitters/reel/C0A0JAvP9EV/
(c)
(i) Regarding "miso-cured eggs," which are eggs in miso.
Miso is fermentation product and therefore acidic.
(ii) preserved egg:
(A) salted egg: "Salted egg whites are smooth, tender, and delicate; the egg yolks are orange-red, oily, gritty, and rich in nutrients. Apart from direct consumption, salted egg yolks are often used as filling in the processing of some traditional Chinese foods such as mooncakes and zongzi (traditional Chinese rice pudding).": from the Web.
(B) century egg 皮蛋 (the same in Arati Menon, Why I Moved: For a Life in a Misty Mountain Town in Rural Japan. Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she's found a community and made a home. Condé Nast Traveler, Jan 25, 2025. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-i-moved-to-japan-countryside
("This is part of Why I Moved, a recurring series about Americans building a life abroad")
Note:
(a) I did not read the article. Instead I view photos only, and was intrigued by a photo whose caption reads: "The miso-cured eggs recipe from Water, Wood, and Wild Things Hannah Kirshner" But the following is background:
(i) "Yamanaka Onsen in the Ishikawa Prefecture"
(A) Ishikawa Prefecture 石川県 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_Prefecture
is on Japan's north shore facing Sea of Japan -- and thus a long winter with gutsy wind and heavy snow -- where Japanese consider it hardship to live and sparsely populated (compared to south shore).
(B) "Yamanaka Onsen 山中温泉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamanaka_Onsen"
("in the city of [加賀市 City of] Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan")
(ii) "The idea for her book, Water, Wood & Wild Things, an ode to Yamanaka's crafters and cultivators, was born. 'As I moved there to write about the community, I became a part of it—and wanted to stay,' Kirshner says in a conversation with Traveler. Seven years on, Kirshner owns two old homes in a compound in Yamanaka that she's slowly renovating (partly by herself) using ecological design principles and local materials, and now has a white Kei truck that she uses to schlep supplies (and rubble). She is best friends with a pair of crows and her elderly neighbor's Shiba Inu—he [dog] stops for treats as they [Kirshner and crows] pass by on their morning walk—and she spends time gardening and foraging."
(i)
(A) Her last name Kirshner is the American form of German surname Kirschner. The German surname Kirschner is "Saxon or Silesian form of Kürschner furrier."
Contrast another German surname Kirchner (as in former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner (1950-2010; presidency 2003-2007 (died of heart attack)): "from Middle High German kirchenaere sexton" (Both definitions come from Dictionary of American Family Names.)
(B) the book: Hannah Kirshner, Water, Wood & Wild Things; Learning craft and cultivation in a Japanese mountain town. Penguin Random House, 2021. https://hannahkirshner.com/book
(ii) kei truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck
has, as it should, the first letter of "kei" in lowercase. There are two classes of automobiles and motorcycles (called バイク bike) in Japan (2-, 3- or 4-wheel): kei 軽 and ordinary (automobiles) 普通(車; not 重).
(iii) Shiba Inu 柴犬 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu
, where shiba and inu are Japanese pronunciations of the respective kanji.
(iv) The crows are not her pets. See her Instagram posting dated "November 23, 2023" (video). https://www.instagram.com/sweetsnbitters/reel/C0A0JAvP9EV/
(c)
(i) Regarding "miso-cured eggs," which are eggs preserved in miso.
Miso is a fermentation product and therefore acidic.
(ii) preserved egg:
(A) salted egg: "Salted egg whites are smooth, tender, and delicate; the egg yolks are orange-red, oily, gritty, and rich in nutrients. Apart from direct consumption, salted egg yolks are often used as filling in the processing of some traditional Chinese foods such as mooncakes and zongzi (traditional Chinese rice pudding).": from the Web.
(B) century egg 皮蛋 (the same in Korean and Japanese, see table) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
(section 1 Methods, section 1.3 Chemistry behind the transformation)
(C) chemistry underlying preserved egg:
Aguilar JM et al, Acidic and Heat Processing of Egg Yolk Dispersions. Processes, 9, 1842 (2021) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/9/10/1842
("1/ Introduction: "Egg yolk (EY) may be considered as an oil-in-water emulsion, almost half of it composed by water, where lipids and proteins (a third and a sixth part of EY, respectively) are suspended in the 'aqueous phase [water in EY],' mainly associated as lipoprotein complexes [6,7]. Particularly, proteins are responsible for the gelling properties of egg yolk, which become apparent when attractive and repulsive interactions are no longer equilibrated in their native state (sol) and denaturation takes place. Many compounds such as acids, bases, inorganic salts, solvents, and other chemicals as well as some treatments such as heat or pressure could be able to partially denature the supramolecular structure of proteins and lead to aggregation [8,9,10,11,12,13]. This partial denaturation is also affected by the protein structure itself and the environmental conditions (pH, type of salt, and ionic strength). Moreover, protein aggregates can eventually form a gel when the protein concentration overcomes a critical value, depending on the balance between stabilizing and destabilizing forces")
(A) This explains why various preservations result in similar appearance of the egg -- here miso0cured egg and salted egg.
(B) this paragraph (dealing with EY, composed of proteins and lipids) applies to egg white, which is mainly albumin 白蛋白, a kind of protein.
(C) colloid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloid
("A colloid has a dispersed phase (the suspended particles) [top horizontal row in the table of section 1 Classification] and a continuous phase (the medium of suspension) [vertical column on the left margin of the same table].")
• In that table, solid in liquid is "sol." Click the "sol" and you learn the solid is very minute. In that same table, liquid in solid is "gel."
• sol (colloid) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_(colloid)
("Sols are often used in the sol-gel process, in which a sol is converted into a gel through the addition of a crosslinking agent")
• Wiktionary says the English noun "sol" is shortened from "solution" and an example of sol is aerosol. The aerosol appears in the above-mentioned table twice: liquid aerosol (eg, hair spray) or solid aerosol. and Japanese, see table) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
(section 1 Methods, section 1.3 Chemistry behind the transformation)
(C) chemistry underlying preserved egg:
Aguilar JM et al, Acidic and Heat Processing of Egg Yolk Dispersions. Processes, 9, 1842 (2021) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/9/10/1842
("1. Introduction: "Egg yolk (EY) may be considered as an oil-in-water emulsion, almost half of it composed by water, where lipids and proteins (a third and a sixth part of EY, respectively) are suspended in the 'aqueous phase [water in EY],' mainly associated as lipoprotein complexes [6,7]. Particularly, proteins are responsible for the gelling properties of egg yolk, which become apparent when attractive and repulsive interactions are no longer equilibrated in their native state (sol) and denaturation takes place. Many compounds such as acids, bases, inorganic salts, solvents, and other chemicals as well as some treatments such as heat or pressure could be able to partially denature the supramolecular structure of proteins and lead to aggregation [8,9,10,11,12,13]. This partial denaturation is also affected by the protein structure itself and the environmental conditions (pH, type of salt, and ionic strength). Moreover, protein aggregates can eventually form a gel when the protein concentration overcomes a critical value, depending on the balance between stabilizing and destabilizing forces")
(A) This explains why various preservations result in similar appearance of the egg -- here miso-cured egg and salted egg.
(B) this paragraph (dealing with EY, composed of proteins and lipids) applies to egg white, which is mainly albumin 白蛋白, a kind of protein.
(C) colloid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloid
("A colloid has a dispersed phase (the suspended particles) [top horizontal row in the table of section 1 Classification] and a continuous phase (the medium of suspension) [vertical column on the left margin of the same table].")
• In that table, solid in liquid is "sol." Click the "sol" and you learn the solid is very minute. In that same table, liquid in solid is "gel."
• sol (colloid) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_(colloid)
("Sols are often used in the sol-gel process, in which a sol is converted into a gel through the addition of a crosslinking agent")
• Wiktionary says the English noun "sol" is shortened from "solution" and that an example of sol is aerosol. The aerosol appears in the above-mentioned table twice: liquid aerosol (eg, hair spray) or solid aerosol.