The introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition of [_Vegetarian Cooking for
Everyone_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0767927478) contains the
following passage on page 4 (emphasis added):

> Vegetarians have often used the phrase "I don't eat anything with a face on
> it," to describe their food choices as plant-based. But there is another
> interpretation of that phrase "food with a face." **The Japanese have a word
> for it, _teikkai_ , which refers to the provenance of a food―where it comes
> from, how it was raised, who grew it.** It is the opposite of "general
> foods," those faceless foods that come to us anonymously from a vague
> source: foods without soul.

Never having heard of _teikkai_ , I [tried to look it up in a
dictionary](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/jn/%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%A3%E3%81%8B%E3%81%84/m0u/)
- and of course, I found nothing. [Searching for `"teikkai"` in Latin
script](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22teikkai%22) gives only [one
relevant result](http://inspiritual.biz/the-zenful-
kitchen/2011/6/16/teikkai.html), which is by some other reader of the same
book and provides no further insight. My best guess would be that the author
meant _tekkai_ or _teikai_ , but then again, none of 撤回・鉄拐 nor 低回・停会 mean
anything remotely related.

Is there a word that resembles _teikkai_ in Japanese that has something to do
with "the provenance of a food"?

(Structurally-similar question from some time back: [What is a word for
"participation" that resembles
"kameseru"?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/17723/))
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What word that resembles "teikkai" might refer to "the provenance of a food"?
I believe chocolate-san is right and I have the website of the Japan Organic
Agriculture Association in
[Japanese](http://www.joaa.net/mokuhyou/teikei.html) and
[English](http://www.joaa.net/english/teikei.htm#ch5-1) to prove it.

It turns out this "teikei" 「提携」 (lit. "cooperation") has been around since
1978. The longer names are 産消提携{さんしょうていけい} and 生消提携{せいしょうていけい}.

It seems the problem, aside from getting the transliteration wrong, was that
the author thought it was a common word. Or more precisely, that the
definition she gave was the main meaning of the word. In actuality, the JOAA
started a movement and named it teikei. (See section 3 of the English
website).
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