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Soup for 30,000 cooked up in single, giant pot at Yamagata festival
YAMAGATA -- Go big or go home. That might as well have been the slogan for the 26th Yamagata Imoni Festival here on Sept. 14, as organizers cooked up 30,000 servings of beef and vegetable soup in a single, massive pot.
The great cauldron, called "Nabe Taro," measures 6 meters across, and into it on Sept. 14 went 3 metric tons of taro potato, 1.2 tons of Yamagata beef, 3,500 green onions, and a host of other ingredients. With so much soup on the boil, the cooks used modified power shovels instead of ladles to stir and serve the broth. The entire area was enveloped in the scent of soy sauce, and every single 300-yen serving was sold.
"It was delicious," said 60-year-old Tokiko Chiba of Taihaku Ward, Sendai -- one of a number of Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami survivors invited to the festival by organizers. "The Hanagasa dance was also performed, and I really felt welcome."
The Yamagata Imoni Festival is usually held on the first Sunday of September, but organizers pushed it back this year because in recent years, early September weather has been too hot.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140915p2a00m0na004000c.html