Waterstones Everyday Harumi
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Price: £16.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: In Everyday Harumi, now reissed as an attractive jacketed paperback, Harumi Kurihara, Japan's most popular cookery writer, selects her favourite foods and presents more than 60 new home-style recipes for you to make for family and friends. Harumi wants everyone to be able to make her recipes and she demonstrates how easy it is to cook Japanese food for every day occasions without needing to shop at specialist food stores. Using many of her favourite ingredients, Harumi presents recipes for soups, starters, snacks, party dishes, main courses and family feasts that are quick and simple to prepare, all presented in her effortless, down-to-earth and unpretentious approach to stylish living and eating. Every recipe is photographed and includes beautiful step-by-step instructions that show key Japanese cooking techniques. Texture and flavour are important to Japanese food and Harumi takes you through the basic sauces you can make at home and the staples you should have in your store cupboard. Photographed by award-winning photographer Jason Lowe, this warm and approachable cookbook invites you to cook and share Japanese food in a simple and elegant style.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781840917437
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ISBN: 9781840917437
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Author: Cookie
Rating: 5
Review: The book is, as its title claims, filled with easy and simple recipes you would offer in a Japanese home. There are plenty of all-time favourites such as Tonkatsu (breaded pork), Karaage (deep-fried chicken), Shougayaki (ginger pork) and Yakitori (barbequed chicken skewers) which are balanced with some less-well-known (but just as delicious!) dishes. Many of the recipes are real classics, you would eat at any Japanese home and often in restaurants too. It certainly brought back many fond memories of the time I spent in Japan. Some of the recipes have a slight Western twist to them, which I think makes the book even more interesting, as it gives the recipes some real uniqueness. And all of the recipes are dead-simple, allowing even cooking-challenged people to to enjoy Japanese cooking. Some of the recipes are actually pretty common in home-economics classes in Japanese schools. I also loved the fact that the only sushi recipe this book features is Mazezushi - a very easy and quick recipe too - as (unlike often assumed) there is much more to Japanese cooking than rice and raw fish! So this is the book for you if you want to expand your knowledge of Japanese everyday-cooking. Recipes aside, the book is also presented well, with pleasant thick pages nice to touch and beautiful pictures alongside every recipe, enticing your appetite. The overall appearance of the book is sort of muted and soft, perfectly in line with the homey feeling of the recipes.
Author: Andrew J. Tindall
Rating: 4
Review: This book contains many tasty recipes, which have become favourites in my house, but occupies an awkward space between the Japanese and "Asian" cookbooks on my shelf. Harumi's recipes here are by and large an adaptation of traditional Japanese food, written with a Western audience in mind- most of the recipes lack a japanese name, and few "exotic" ingredients are used that can't be picked up in a large supermarket (at least in Britain). However many of the recipes use dashi and other ingredients necessating a trip to a Japanese store. This isn't a problem, but is worth bearing in mind- if you can make the occasional trip to an Asian food store to stock up on sauces, seasonings and storecupboard ingredients this book is for you. If you can't (or would like to become a regular in your local Pan-Asian Supermarket), it probably isn't. For me, this book is perfect for getting the flavours of Japan into my food more regularly. The "authenticity" angle is far from a moot point, but seeing as I don't live in Japan (any more) this allows me to use the ingredients available to me to create passably Japanese food week in, week out. An okonomiyaki recipe would've sealed the deal.
