TUTORIAL PREPARATION:Submit a response,of no more than 200 words, to the following question:What ‘messages’, according to Anne Allison, are packed into the Japanese obento boxes she analyses?

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TUTORIAL PREPARATION— FOOD ACROSS CULTURE
What ‘messages’, according to Anne Allison, are packed into the Japanese obento boxes she analyses?
In Japan, there is a tradition of mothers packing lunch for their children in obento boxes, which are a more intricate and complete form of school lunch boxes for kids. The Japanese mothers carry out the strenuous task of preparing a complex lunch for their children, now a days for any grown up working individual as well, to provide them with all the nutrition that their body would need in order to carry out the entire day’s hectic work or study schedule. Hence, an ideal obento box is...