Japanese Food and Cooking

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An excellent guide - Rated
This book is a good starter book, although some of the recipes may not suit western tastes - this is a very much a Japanese cookbook, not in the least westernised. Consequently anyone who lives far from a Japanese food store (an index of UK stores is handily listed in the back of the book) may have problems actually cooking many of the recipes.

The book is divided into two halves. The first covers in detail all the ingredients in Japanese cooking, with some of the history and cultural information thrown in where relevant. This part is extremely useful as it meant when going into a japanese store I knew what to look for (even if I couldn't read most of the labels..!). The second half is the recipes, which like the rest of the book are beautifully presented, and like Japanese cooking in general, are also quite simple.

A good first japanese cookbook, and also an interesting read in the first half of the book.