Yakitori is a Japanese dish of chicken cooked on a skewer over a charcoal fire and seasoned with tare sauce or salt, its name literally meaning grilled bird. The term is also sometimes used more broadly to refer to kushiyaki, or grilled and skewered foods, in general.
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Origin RegionSourced to the subject's own accountWikipedia's lead sentence opens with the words In Japanese cuisine, yakitori, identifying it as part of Japanese cuisine; the article carries no History section and gives no origin date. Classification
Dietary SuitabilitySourced to the subject's own accountContains Meat or Poultry 2 Connections
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1. Yakitori (Wikidata)
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2. Yakitori (Wikipedia)
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In Japanese cuisine, yakitori
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In Japanese cuisine, yakitori is chicken cooked on a skewer over a charcoal fire and seasoned with tare sauce or salt.
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When did yakitori take shape as a distinct Japanese grilled-skewer dish?
Wikipedia's article on yakitori has no History section and gives no year, century or historical period anywhere in the text for when the dish emerged; only preparation, seasoning and sales are described.
What would resolve this A food-history source establishing when yakitori took shape as a distinct grilled skewered-chicken dish in Japanese cuisine.
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