This should be the top comment. It's like criticizing a tutorial page on pythonguy.com titled "Python techniques for copying data structures" because the author didn't explain that the same techniques are used in Julia.
Maybe readers are inferring some nationalistic element to a cooking tutorial, where people assume that a description of techniques used in Japanese cooking is some kind of claim to ownership of them?
I think this article is interesting on its own terms, because regardless of your heritage, if you haven't studied cooking you might not have experimented with how you cut vegetables. I always used to just straight chop everything when I made a stir fry, but now I try to be more creative.
Maybe readers are inferring some nationalistic element to a cooking tutorial, where people assume that a description of techniques used in Japanese cooking is some kind of claim to ownership of them?
I think this article is interesting on its own terms, because regardless of your heritage, if you haven't studied cooking you might not have experimented with how you cut vegetables. I always used to just straight chop everything when I made a stir fry, but now I try to be more creative.