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大分の料理：そばやせうま Oita local recipe: Buckwheat Yaseuma

What does a linguistics blog have to do with food? I am not sure why not, this is a traditional recipe from Oita Japan called yase uma. Yase (八瀬) being the name of the person who according to story made it for a child who fled the then capital – Kyoto. When trying it, the child said “Yase uma uma”, uma being umai – delicious. So it has been said that the word yaseuma was [...]