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The essential guide to Japanese home cooking -- the ingredients, techniques, and over 100 recipes -- for seasoned cooks and beginners who are craving authentic Japanese flavors. Using high-quality, seasonal ingredients in simple preparations, Sonoko Sakai offers recipes with a gentle voice and a passion for authentic Japanese cooking. Beginning with the pantry, the flavors of this cuisine are explored alongside fundamental recipes, such as dashi and pickles, and traditional techniques, like show more making noodles and properly cooking rice. Use these building blocks to cook an abundance of everyday recipes with dishes like Grilled Onigiri (rice balls) and Japanese Chicken Curry. From there, the book expands into an exploration of dishes organized by breakfast; vegetables and grains; meat; fish; noodles, dumplings, and savory pancakes; and sweets and beverages. With classic dishes like Kenchin-jiru (Hearty Vegetable Soup with Sobagaki Buckwheat Dumplings), Temaki Zushi (Sushi Hand Rolls), and Oden (Vegetable, Seafood, and Meat Hot Pot) to more inventive dishes like Mochi Waffles with Tatsuta (Fried Chicken) and Maple Yuzu Kosho, First Garden Soba Salad with Lemon-White Miso Vinaigrette, and Amazake (Fermented Rice Drink) Ice Pops with Pickled Cherry Blossoms this is a rich guide to Japanese home cooking. Featuring stunning photographs by Rick Poon, the book also includes stories of food purveyors in California and Japan. This is a generous and authoritative book that will appeal to home cooks of all levels. -- show lessTags
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Simplicity
If simplicity is the guiding light of Japanese home cooking, it is also the guide for this lovely book. Ms Sakai shows us how a clear cooking philosophy is reflected in clearly realized food.
Japanese home cooking has been the subject of other books written by famous chefs including Masaharu Morimoto and Harumi Kurihara. I am in no way qualified to compare these three books – I did not grow up in a Japanese household. I can say, however, that Ms Sakai's book is satisfying to read and to see and if you are keen to attempt this cuisine, this book can guide you.
I received a review copy of " Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors" by Sonoko Sakai from publisher Roost Books through NetGalley.com.
If simplicity is the guiding light of Japanese home cooking, it is also the guide for this lovely book. Ms Sakai shows us how a clear cooking philosophy is reflected in clearly realized food.
Japanese home cooking has been the subject of other books written by famous chefs including Masaharu Morimoto and Harumi Kurihara. I am in no way qualified to compare these three books – I did not grow up in a Japanese household. I can say, however, that Ms Sakai's book is satisfying to read and to see and if you are keen to attempt this cuisine, this book can guide you.
I received a review copy of " Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors" by Sonoko Sakai from publisher Roost Books through NetGalley.com.
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- Canonical title
- Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors
- Original publication date
- 2019
- People/Characters
- Sonoko Sakai
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- Japan; Asia
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