Nancy Singleton Hachisu has lived on a farm in Saitama for more than 30 years and therefore writes from within the tradition rather than about it. She is regarded as the leading English-language voice on Japanese home cooking.
There are more than 250 vegetarian recipes here. The point of the book is that Japanese cooking is fundamentally vegetable-led, with meat the exception rather than the starting point, making this a natural continuation of her monumental Japan: The Cookbook rather than a sideline.
Amanda Cohen, who runs the vegetable restaurant Dirt Candy in New York, called it a must for anyone who loves vegetables. I call it incredibly good to leaf through. Something I am just as happy to sit with in my hand as a glass of sherry.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 368
Language: English
First published: 2023