Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Soy sauce made with little or no wheat.
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- noun A type of
soy sauce made withoutwheat , having arich flavor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As for the soy sauce, I use a naturally-fermented Chinese soy sauce, but you can use a Japanese type, such as Kikkoman, or tamari, which is a naturally-fermented soy sauce made without wheat.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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I occasionally use tamari, which is a fermented liquid resulting from the production of miso, but that is it for my family.
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By late 1980 the East West Journal and much of the macrobiotic community had made the suggested shift in terminology; distributors of the so-called "tamari" followed suit slowly.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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The first macrobiotic "tamari" was made in Europe starting in 1958 by Lima Food company, under the supervision of Pierre Gevaert and Ohsawa.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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Ohsawa mentioned that words like "tamari" and "murasaki" were also used in Japan to refer to traditional soy sauces.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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Then an unusual series of events took place which later created considerable confusion between terms "tamari" and "shoyu."
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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Lima Foods liked the word "tamari," finding it short, distinctive, and easy to pronounce.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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The term "tamari," introduced in about 1960, began to catch on in the mid-1960s and was the most widely used term for natural soy sauce in the natural- and health-food trades from about 1970-1980.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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Ohsawa made a mistake, however, in using the term "tamari" to make his distinction, since "tamari" also referred to a type of Japanese shoyu containing little or no wheat.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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He chose to use the term "tamari" to refer to the traditional, naturally fermented Japanese-style shoyu, which he worked to introduced into the West.
VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
treeseed commented on the word tamari
a type of Japanese soy sauce
Tamari (�?��?�り)
Produced mainly in the Chūbu region of Japan, tamari is darker in appearance and richer in flavour than koikuchi. It contains little or no wheat; wheat-free tamari is popular among people eating a wheat free diet. It is the "original" Japanese soy sauce, as its recipe is closest to the soy sauce originally introduced to Japan from China. Technically, this variety is known as miso-damari (味噌溜り), as this is the liquid that runs off miso as it matures.
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March 12, 2008