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Harumi's Japanese Home Cooking (Hardcover)

by Harumi Kurihara (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd (15 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840914793
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840914795
  • Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 123,637 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Following the international bestseller Harumi's "Japanese Cooking", Harumi's second book "Japanese Home Cooking" presents more than 70 new authentic Japanese recipes, and menu and table presentation suggestions. Harumi introduces specialist Japanese cooking techniques such as the use of cooking chopsticks, different knives and styles of chopping, as well as explaining how to plan and present a traditional Japanese menu and table. Chapters include soup, eggs and tofu, rice and noodles, meat, fish, vegetables, desserts and drinks, bento (lunch boxes) and menu planning. Throughout the book, Harumi's Hints offer tips and helpful suggestions and alternative Western ingredients are suggested in place of hard-to-find specialist Japanese products, without compromising on taste or results. A glossary of ingredients and useful lists of suppliers complete the book. Harumi's "Japanese Home Cooking" gives a popular insight into the way meals are eaten in Japan today. The recipes embrace simplicity and elegance, and combine authentic Japanese cuisine with contemporary tastes. It is illustrated throughout with superb photographs of dishes, preparation steps, tableware and presentation ideas.


About the Author

HARUMI KURIHARA is the most influential cookery writer in her home country of Japan. She has authored more than 40 books collectively selling more than 15 million copies, as well as producing a quarterly magazine Suteki Recipes (Lovely Recipes) and her own brand of kitchenware. Harumi's first cookbook in English Harumi's Japanese Cooking won the Gourmand World Cookbook award in 2004. Her success is rooted in her down to earth, pragmatic approach which follows a philosophy of elegance and simplicity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Much more authentic, 28 Sep 2007
I really liked Harumi's first book 'Harumi's Japanese Cooking' (and what cook could resist investigating 'Japan's answer to Delia Smith'?) but was well aware even when cooking and eating those dishes that this wasn't entirely the 'real thing'. As the previous reviewer says, Harumi seemed slightly worried about presenting full-on Japanese to the western audience, or the British audience in particular since what I purchased was the British edition of her book.
Well, she's still worried; but less so! I mean, you won't find any 'dancing sushi' or fish cut up live for sashimi here; but on the other hand as a Brit, I can understand that Harumi may have been inhibited as much by her knowledge that over here, on an island that's surrounded by water, we simply can't buy seafood that's fresh enough, as by regard for our inbred squeamishness about killing what we eat. I mean, I was in a certain very well known supermarket the other day, asked for herring at the fish counter; they didn't have any, but the salesman (I hesitate to call him a fishmonger) told me that if I'd been in the day before I could have had it at a great price. Because it was three days old ...
duh!!!
Mercifully Harumi manages to include here plenty of authentic Japanese home-style recipes which do not require quivering-fresh seafood: miso soups, noodle dishes (no ramen this time!) and hotpots. There's even one more-or-less-raw fish dish which is suitable for the British cook with access only to supermarket mackerel: the lightly-pickled mackerel 'sashimi' is strongly flavoured with vinegar and soy sauce, and thus sufficiently forgiving of less than entirely perfect fish to make a delicious dish even over here.
Regarding the previous reviewer's comment on sugar content, well it's true! And what's more, I strongly suspect Harumi has toned down her dishes in this respect for the Western market. For a cuisine that's supposedly so healthy and natural the Japanese use an astonishing amount of both sugar (both as sugar, and in mirin seasoning) and alcohol in their day to day cooking, and if you don't like it, you might be better off investigating a different cookery style.
I found this book an enjoyable read, and the recipes are both simple and do-able even in a country without a strong tradition of the use of fresh seasonal ingredients (though thankfully this does seem to be changing at the moment). Harumi's Hints, included with many of the recipes, give highly useful and practical pointers to suitable western substitutions for less available ingredients, while she takes pains to explain any less familiar cooking techniques in detail.
Harumi herself comes over as a modest, traditional Japanese housewife who has more or less by accident ended up as a global culinary celebrity. I don't know how accurate this picture is, but it's an attractive one, and the book reads correspondingly attractively. I look forward to hearing more from Harumi and to learning more about this fascinating cuisine. Oh, and by the way - the home-made udon noodles, which involve much stomping (yes, with your feet!) on the plastic-bag-encased dough, is a must try, if only on an 'have to attempt it just once in order to say I've done it' basis!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Impressed!, 28 Sep 2006
By julia "book hoarder" (Warks, England) - See all my reviews
I was intersted in Japanese cookery for a while but it was difficult to get good advice since moving out of London. Then when I saw a book by "Japan's answer to Delia Smith" I had to get the book. I was very impressed by this her first (in English) book, <Harumi's Japanese Cooking>. I got many use of the book.

Since then, she appeared on so many places. On my Japanese neighbour's bookshelf (in Japanese), on airline magazines - bing a big success in USA, etc.

Here I have her new book, <Harumi's Japanese Home Kooking>. Not surprisingly for a book by same publisher, this book's look is more or less same as the first one - superve photos and same typeset.
It seems that she gained more confidence in her books in English speaking market. Her first book had many pseudo-Japanse dishes or 'fusion' style dishes alongside famouse Japanese dishes as if she was nervous to present the whole real thing. This time, the book is full of more authentic type Japanese home cooking as the title suggests.

If you are interested Japanese culture and food, you won't be disappointed.

The chapters are:
Soup, Eggs & Tofu/ Rice & Noodles/ Meat & Poultry/ Fish & Seafood/ Vegetables/ Dessets & Drinks/ Bento/ Menu Planning

This book shows more of what Japanese people eat today, than what western people think what Japanese food is like. Highly recommended.

(less one star becasue, she likes her food sweeter than I do. I halved the amount of sugar every time.)
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