The Japanese Home Cooking Book from Roost Books and Shambhala Publications explores the art of Japanese cooking and its twin appreciation of ingredients and process.

Using high-quality, in-season ingredients in simple preparations is the way of Japanese home cooking that Sonoko Sakai promotes in this book of essential recipes. Beginning with the Japanese pantry, the key flavors of Japanese cuisine are explored alongside recipes for the fundamental building blocks of this cuisine, including dashi, pickles, soybeans, rice, and noodles.

From there, the basic okazu recipes offer solid everyday recipes that explore these foundational flavors. With a gentle voice and a passion for authentic Japanese cooking, Sonoko then dives into dishes for breakfast; vegetables and grains; meat; fish; noodles, dumplings, and savory pancakes; sweets; preserved fruits; and beverages. Throughout, discover lessons on traditional Japanese techniques, such as working with fish to slice sashimi and make home-style sushi, making quick and fermented pickles, and cutting noodles.

With stunning photos by Rick Poon, stories of food purveyors in California and Japan, and over 100 recipes, this is a generous book that will appeal to home cooks of all levels.

Shambhala Publications has long been one of the premier publishers of dharma and spiritual books in the West. From simple beginnings in Berkeley at the height of the sixties counterculture, Shambhala Publications went on to become one of the most respected publishers of the most important books in the spiritual landscape. Their landmark titles include Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, Edward Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book, Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, best selling translations of the Art of War, Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones,  Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart, and Suzuki Roshi's classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Shambhala Publications publishes books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet. It presents dharma expressed beyond the meditation cushion, in everyday activities and all spheres of human endeavor, including psychology and the sciences, the arts and creativity, business and economics, and health and healing.

Details:

Hardcover.

Includes tote bag.