Atsuko’s Japanese Kitchen: Home-Cooked Comfort Food Made Simple

Are you ready to broaden your cooking horizons, or expand your Japanese cuisine techniques? Atsuko’s Japanese Kitchen Home-Cooked Comfort-Food Made Simple opens the door to the most popular cuisine in the world, with the secrets and techniques behind many of Japan’s most popular regional dishes.

Grab your chopsticks and get ready to feast upon the most delectable Japanese cuisine from the comfort of your own home. Atsuko Ikeda’s ten years of teaching expertise and flavor profiles explode off the pages with beautiful full-color pictures of every recipe, as she breaks down the concepts and the methodology of Japanese cuisine cooking. With chapters divided among small dishes, soups and noodles, one-plate meals, special occasions, sides, and desserts, there are mouth-watering meals no matter your flavor profile choices.

Readers will learn the five golden rules of taste, color, and methods as well as the essential ingredients and tools that, all combined, will make any home chef successful in their own kitchen. From mochi and tofu cheesecake, miso soups, dumplings, and hot pots readers will not only be taken on a profile of unique flavors but a cultural journey as well.