Meat Dishes for New Year’s Day from Recipe Search Data

Abstract

This paper is a result of our research about new meat dishes for New Year’s Day. Using the big data from the recipe search function of Cookpad Inc., we located six new meat dishes for New Year’s Day: roast beef, boiled pork, kakuni, roasted pork, sukiyaki, and shabu-shabu. These dishes are not traditional dishes. However they frequently appears as New Year’s dishes. We assume that these are chosen in consideration of taste, luxury, and their ability to be preserved for several days. Next, we investigated their historical background. Roast beef and boiled pork (including kakuni and roasted pork) appeared in magazines from the 1910s. Magazines from the ’90s presented them as if they were traditional dishes. In addition, a lot of existing studies report that these dishes have been eaten since the ’80s.