Here’s a sample of tonight’s prime time TV schedule in Japan:
Home Cooking Hints - Male and female teams…compete to produce original salmon dishes. Chef Yoshimi Hidaka…demonstrates how to combine the fish with pasta.
Quiz: World Gourmet Special - Hosts Tomoaki Ogura and Keiko Iwase introduce the rice-growing area of Minami-Uonuma in Niigata Prefecture and the eel-producing Tome River.
Science Variety: Trial and Success - Bean sprouts are the cheapest highly nutritious food available. Special cameras capture the mysterious moment when a bean germinates, and hints are presented on preparing a number of tasty dishes with the sprouts.
Info Variety: Prism of Evolution - The first program in a series providing guidance on how to survive and prosper in the ever-changing modern world looks at recent shifts in people’s eating habits.
Where else in the world is the network prime-time lineup so dominated by food programs?