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The Food of Japan: Authentic Recipes from the Land of the Rising Sun

Description: The attractive Periplus Cookbooks series (The Food of Bali; The Food of Thailand) presents Asian national cuisines for preparing in Western kitchens. This volume offers a compact but thorough survey of the fundamentals of Japanese food, highlighted by more than 70 recipes. A long, helpful glossary of ingredients precedes the recipes, and brief essays on the evolution of Japanese food are informative (e.g., the impact of shojin ryori?the "vegetarian Buddhist temple fare"?with its emphasis on providing five colors and six tastes in a meal). Recipes are "grouped to follow the basic pattern of a Japanese meal" ra ... (more)
Manufacturer: Periplus Editions
Release date: 15 September 1998
ISBN-10 : 9625933921 | ISBN-13: 9789625933924
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