What's Gomasio?

[Guest guest]

In case you're wondering what this ingredient is: Sometimes called sesame

salt, gomasio contains toasted sesame seeds and

sea salt. It is available in health food stores.

 

Karen

List Owner

[Guest guest]

Karen writes:

 

>In case you're wondering what this ingredient is: Sometimes called sesame

>salt, gomasio contains toasted sesame seeds and

>sea salt. It is available in health food stores.

 

And just so none of you will embarrass yourselves by misprounoucing it the

way *I* did - it's pronounced goh-mah-shee-oh. There are no accented

syllables in Japanese, so don't worry about that. You just need that

" shee " sound in there. There is no " see " sound in Japanese, and the

romanized spelling of " gomasio " is the old version, which assumed that

everyone who needed to know this would know it from studying the language.

There is a new romanization used in Japan now - it would be spelled

" gomashio " in the current usage.

 

Lisa (who spent two years in Japan, but never learned the language properly)

 

Lisa T. Bennett (ltbennett)

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