Mastering The Art Of Japanese Home Cooking
by Masaharu Morimoto
Buy on AmazonThe revered Iron Chef shows how to make flavorful, exciting traditional Japanese meals at home in this beautiful cookbook that is sure to become a classic, featuring a carefully curated selection of fantastic recipes and more than 150 color photos. Japanese cuisine has an intimidating reputation that has convinced most home cooks that its beloved preparations are best left to the experts. But legendary chef Masaharu Morimoto, owner of the wildly popular Morimoto restaurants, is here to change that. In Mastering the Art of Japanese Home Cooking, he introduces readers to the healthy, flavorful, surprisingly simple dishes favored by Japanese home cooks.…
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"When chefs cook at home, they leave everything but their skills at the restaurant — and sometimes their skills leave even their “home” recipes dauntingly out of reach. Not so with Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto’s new book. If you can find mirin, miso pastes, scallions and sesame seeds, you can cook this food (katsu don, yakisoba, nabeyaki udon, gyoza, the works). And once you have, you’ll see that a lot of the dishes you thought were strictly restaurant foods can also be home-cooked meals, even on a weeknight."
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