"Koi no Uma-boiled", which has been eaten for a long time in the New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve in the southern part of Yamagata Prefecture, appeared in the school lunch of a local junior high school, and the students enjoyed the traditional taste.

"Koi no Uma-boiled" is a carp boiled in sugar or soy sauce, and is popular as a New Year's Eve or New Year's dish in the Oki region.

A company in Nagai City, which is engaged in carp farming and processing and sales, has been providing carp simmered for lunch at elementary and junior high schools in the Oki region for six years in order to pass on the local food culture to the next generation. About 120 third-year students from Kawanishi Junior High School in the town tasted it.

Prior to the lunch, a class on the history of carp cooking was held, and the representative of the company that provided the carp was that Uesugi Takayama, the lord of the Yonezawa feudal lord of the Edo period, ordered fry of carp from the Soma region of Fukushima prefecture and cultivated it. I introduced things that are said to be the beginning.



To prevent infection, all the students turned to the same direction and ate without exchanging words, but the students thoroughly enjoyed "Koi no Uma-boiled".



One of the female students said, "I ate it for the first time, but the sauce was thick and delicious. I was able to know that it is an important food culture that has been passed down from ancient times."