Enjoy the best Japanese food at home with more than 100 dishes from the gastronomic megacity, including favorites such as miso, sushi, rice, and sweets. While many people enjoy an almost cult-like reverence for Japanese cuisine, they’re intimidated to make this exquisite food at home. In this comprehensive cookbook, Maori Murota demystifies Japanese cooking, making
Enjoy the best Japanese food at home with more than 100 dishes from the gastronomic megacity, including favorites such as miso, sushi, rice, and sweets.
While many people enjoy an almost cult-like reverence for Japanese cuisine, they’re intimidated to make this exquisite food at home. In this comprehensive cookbook, Maori Murota demystifies Japanese cooking, making it accessible and understood by anyone interested in learning about her native food culture and eating well. Inspired by Murota’s memories of growing up in Tokyo—cooking at home with her mother and dining out in the city’s wonderful restaurants and stands—Tokyo Cult Recipes offers clear and concise information on key basic cooking techniques and provides guidance on key ingredients that home cooks can use to create authentic Japanese food anytime.
Tokyo Cult Recipes is packed with dozens of mouthwatering, easy-to-make recipes for miso, sushi, soba noodles, bentos, rice, Japanese tapas, desserts, cakes, and sweets, accompanied by helpful step-by-step photographs. This fabulous cookbook is also a visual guide to this extraordinary city, bringing it colorfully to life in gorgeous shots of food markets, Tokyo street scenes, Japanese kitchen interiors, and more.
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Nothing cult about it, just beloved basics These days, it seems the only way to shop for cookbooks is to look in one’s public library. I checked out six, perused them all and liked this one the best. For one thing, it’s a beautifully designed and compiled book. If you’re a graphic designer and like Japanese, you’ll love this book. Everything is explained in easy to understand detail with associated delicious looking photos. Yes, you will need to find ingredients like Japanese chili powder, kombu, bonito flakes and miso in a Japanese…
Good book for standard dishes with more kicks Pleasantly surprised by the amount of information put in by the author. It has a nice, balanced combination of recipes and Japanese food culture/location recommendation. Several things that made this book really stood out from my collection of Japanese cooking books:1. A very detailed miso soup section, starting from types of miso to the possible combination of vegetables fitting to each miso type, color photo of each combo provided; (good-bye, seaweed & tofu soup from your local Japanese…
Not only is this book beautiful, but all the recipes are very doable if … Growing up with a Japanese mother, this book is a very accurate representation of everything she ever made for me. I actually can’t thing of a single thing that was not in here. Not only is this book beautiful, but all the recipes are very doable if you have typical Japanese staples stocked in your home. It’s seriously worth getting.