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Harumi's Japanese Cooking (Conran Octopus Cookery) Hardcover – 15 Sep 2004

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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Conran; 1st ed. edition (15 Sept. 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1840914084
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840914085
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 2.1 x 26 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 420,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Winner of Best Cookery Book at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2004 Hardback has sold more than 25,000 copies in UK alone More than 70 recipes for fish and seafood, meat, rice, tofu, sushi, noodles, soup, vegetables, desserts, drinks and bento (lunch boxes). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Harumi Kurihara is the best-known cookery writer in Japan, with a public profile similar to that of Delia Smith in the UK. Her cooking and lifestyle books and magazines and media-friendly charisma have brought her phenomenal success, based on a down-to-earth, unpretentious approach to stylish living and eating. She has made the traditional Japanese values of elegance and simplicity relevant and accessible to millions. Harumi's Yutori no kukan (A space for comfortable living) chain of shops sells her own Harumi K brand of simple and stylish household items like tableware, homewear and gardening tools. Each shop has a cafe where customers can sample her recipes. Thirteen Harumi K concessions have been opened in department stores all over Japan.

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 starsSimple Japanese Cooking
By Amazon Customer on 21 Jan. 2005
Format: Hardcover
Being a novice of Japanese cooking I decided that I would need a book that would offer simple recipes and background to Japanese cuisine. So I plumped for this book and was extremely happy when I first opened the book and skimmed through the pages.
Harumi Kurihara is very much like our own Delia; her food is basic to the Japanese person like a roast dinner is to us. But to us Japanese cooking is very new and exciting so we need an author that can give us the basics of Japanese cooking. She explains the various ingredients very well and there are some ingredients that are used throughout her dishes, these are namely mirin and dashi. I have had difficulty in finding mirin and the creation of dashi might be too difficult for basic cooks, but she sometimes give alternatives. She includes at the back of the book a list of Japanese food related shops in the UK which is helpful to a certain extent.
The book is beautifully laid out into sections which are as follows: - Appetisers, Soups and Noodles, Rice, Tofu, Seafood, Chicken and Egg, Beef and Pork, Sushi, Vegetables and Desserts. Plus you have a small section on how to use the book and a small glossary.
There are many mouth watering pictures in this book which makes it delightful to look through. With each recipe there is an accompanying picture so you have an idea of what it is supposed to look like. In my view it is always hard to try and make the food that is created look anything like the pictures in the book. But then again it is like this for most recipe books.
The Tofu section deserves a mention as she highlights seven dishes which are creative and awe inspiring for people like me who has hardly ever used Tofu.Read more ›
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 starsbeautifully presented, delicious recipes
By A Customer on 28 Feb. 2005
Format: Hardcover
I've thought about buying this for a while then did last week. Tried 3 recipes over the weekend - really good food, I was impressed - I'm planning to try quite a lot more. It's a very good looking book, well laid out with nice photos. Most of the ingredients are pretty easy to get hold of (well if you have access to a Japanese food store) and substitutes are almost always listed. It didn't get 5 stars because I had problems with one of the dishes (the instructions for the warm aubergine salad says to microwave the aubergine - DON'T - it makes the skin really tough) and also the fact that it doesn't give much guidance on putting menus together (e.g. it says "serves 4" but you need to combine with other dishes - but how many? what works well together?). But minor gripes aside this is an excellent book
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsEasy-to-make, healthy and delicious
By TigressLea on 3 Nov. 2011
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
This book is for people who like healthy and delicous food, especially if you like the typically Japanese taste of meals, which takes little time to prepare.
There's a lot of soya sauce, tofu and kombu soup base in the recipes so if you don't like those you'd better buy Jamie Olliver or something.
This is a modern Japanese cuisine, so if you want some old-Japan recipes which take hours to make with only wooden utensils stay clear away from Harumi. She's all about efficiency and sensibility, microwaves and rice cookers when possible.
She always offers western substitutes to Japanese ingredients difficult to find outside her home country so you don't have to travel far or spend a lot to enjoy her recipes.
I absolutely love it!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsFanatastic
By dh on 20 Oct. 2011
Format: Paperback
This book is fantastic, particularly for a novice of Japanese cooking. The book itself is so nicely presented, and very much in the Japanese style of simplicity. I have made a few dishes from the book and have found the recipes easy to follow, and the ingredients have been fairly easy to source, particularly with world foods becoming more readily available in supermarkets. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in Japanese cooking or looking to try some different dishes as it does not disappoint!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 starsInspiring
By fudenden on 25 Jun. 2011
Format: Paperback
This book has been a fantastic gift to all my friends. Most ingredients are available in some forms maybe dried, bottled or frozen at Asian /Japanese supermarkets in the UK. Not all but some alternative ingredients are suggested in the book as well. Harumi's cooking books contain simple yet tasty Japanese foods which have been very popular at events parties and functions. Photographs show accurately what they will look like and all are achievable, instructions and explanations are easily followed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat
By A Passer By VINE VOICE on 8 July 2008
Format: Hardcover
"Harumi's Japanese Cooking" is a great Japanese recipe book. It starts with a beautiful introduction which includes Harumi's memories about cooking in her family, recipes and Japanese cuisine, note about rice, tableware and presentation and ethiquette.
The book has chapters on Dashi, Appetisers and Entrees, Soup and noodles, Rice, Tofu, Seafood, Chicken and Egg, Beef and Pork, Sushi, Vegetables, Desserts and Drinks, glossary of Japanese food terms and the list of Japanese shops in the UK!
Every chapter has a nice introduction written by Harumi and every recipe is beautifully illustrated.
The recipes themselves are simple and I loved making sushi and garlic fried rice. Harumi gives us a rather wide option in choosing the ingredients, most of them are easily found in UK supermarkets.
I really enjoyed cooking with "Harumi's Japanese Cooking".
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3.0 out of 5 starsI am an experienced cook and the recipes are not easy as they sound...

Recipes do not match the pictures, I am an experienced cook and the recipes are not easy as they sound for those who are new to cooking

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Published 15 months ago by LC
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Good for introduction.

Published 17 months ago by Kuri
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat intro to Japanese home cooking

I've searched for good Japanese cookery books, and find Harumi's books my favourite. Her recipes are simple, delicious, and do not require a lot of ingredients that are hard to... Read more

Published 24 months ago by Stargazer4589
3.0 out of 5 starsBE VERY CAREFUL THERE ARE 2 EDITIONS OF THIS BOOK!!!

I just bought this book because, my neighbour made me some delicious recipe out of it and when she showed me the book I saw lots of very tasty looking recipes so I ordered the book... Read more

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Published on 13 Sept. 2013 by Mrs Margaret Atkinson
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Loved this. Absolutely easy to follow recipes and great meals with little effort. Got introduced this by a Japanese friend and I have already bought her other books which are also... Read more

Published on 4 May 2012 by Nanyo
3.0 out of 5 starsStill not used it....but I will.

Lovely, well written book. Haven't used it yet to produce meals but I will do once I can be bothered to go specialist shopping.

Published on 1 Mar. 2012 by Honest Guv

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