A note about history and its affect on culture

This cookbook, as you can see, was published by the Toronto Buddhist Church. It's the Japanese Canadian organization, with most of its membership comprised of Japanese-Canadians, so you'd assume the cookbook would be filled almost entirely with traditional Japanese recipes. Well you'd be wrong. The majority of recipes are, in fact, "Western" ones, including how to make Jamaican curry. I must mention there is an entire section written in Japanese, which could be anything. This cookbook is a representation of the current state of the Japanese-Canadian community. Because of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the second World War, this community was spread out over the entire country, breaking some of the exclusivity of the community. Descendants of the interned Japanese-Canadian married outside of the community, specifically with people of European heritage. In my family, all the kids of my generation are the products of such unions. We're all half Japanese and half white European. Every time I meet another Japanese-Canadian my age, they are always of mixed heritage, unless they or their parents have recently immigrated from Japan.

What I want to get my hands on is a Japanese cookbook my grandmother has that was published by the Japanese United Church of Canada (there's only one and its the West end of Toronto).