Japanese food continues to grow in popularity in the United States. Yet enjoyment of Japanese cooking is still largely limited to an occasional night out at a Japanese restaurant, and for far too long it has been assumed that this food is difficult to make in one’s own kitchen. Actually, Japanese cooking is surprisingly simple. Raw ingredients should …
In this comprehensive IACP Award-nominated cookbook, Hiroko Shimbo gently and authoritatively demystifies Japanese cuisine for Western cooks. In Part One, Shimbo offers up an extended cooking-school lesson in Japanese ingredients, cooking methods, and implements, with ample advice on easy-to-find substitute ingredients and shortcut techniques.This first part also has all the basic recipes for sauces, stocks, dressings, and …
For Chef Yoshio Saito, learning to cook traditional Japanese food at his mother’s side was a treasured part of his childhood. When she died when he was fourteen, he decided to honor her memory by learning how to cook her recipes and more. In this cookbook, Chef Yoshio, a Tokyo native and trained French/Japanese fusion chef, introduces today’s …
Lonely Planet presents Japan’s most authentic dishes – direct from the kitchens where they were perfected. From street-food vendors to Michelin-starred chefs, Japan’s best local cooks share their passion for food and 60 of their region’s classic recipes – from steaming soups and silky ramen noodles to fresh, hand-rolled sushi. Recipes include: Takoyaki – octopus balls …
Sake: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan’s Artisanal Breweries
SAKE: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan’s Artisanal Breweries is a compendium of the most important generational sake breweries in Japan, featuring profiles of and interviews with the passionate families who run these operations, along with luxurious photography of the small batch processes, landscape and people involved. The 75 profiles include 60 sake breweries, 10 shochu distilleries …
Simply Onigiri: Fun and Creative Recipes for Japanese Rice Balls
One of Japan’s favourite comfort foods, the onigiri or rice ball is quick and easy to put together, nutritious, low in fat and most importantly, tasty! Popular among both adults and children alike, onigiri can be filled, mixed or wrapped with almost any ingredient, moulded big or small, and formed into balls, triangles, rectangles, squares or any other …
Interest in Japanese food in North America has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years, moving well beyond sushi and sashimi. More and more people now appreciate the variety and complex tastes and textures of Japanese food, as well as its emphasis on fresh, seasonal ingredients, and presentation. Words like “dashi” and “umami” are part of our vocabulary.Along …
There’s not a lunch box, birthday party, or afternoon snack that isn’t made more delicious and fun with onigiri! These bite-size balls of rice can be made with favorite and nutritious ingredients, and are easily shaped and decorated to make animals, flowers, and more. This book features more than 30 recipes for flavorful onigiri with a range of …
The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions
Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its presentation. Among the key elements in this presentation style are mukimono–the decorative garnishes and carvings that add the final flourish to a dish. It might be a carrot round in the shape of a plum blossom. Or a scattering of cherry blossoms plucked from a radish. Perhaps a swallow, …
Nominated for the Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year Award, this timeless volume is the first and only book of its kind on the subject.A Dictionary of Japanese Food helps food lovers around the world decipher the intricacies and nuances of Japanese cooking and its ingredients. Definitions in ordinary cookbooks and standard dictionaries—such as akebia for akebi, sea …