Everyday Harumi

Description

In "Everyday Harumi", Harumi Kurihara, Japan's most popular cookery writer, selects her favourite foods and presents more than 60 new home-style recipes for you to make for family and friends. Harumi wants everyone to be able to make her recipes and she demonstrates how easy it is to cook Japanese food for every day occasions without needing to shop at specialist food stores. Arranged by her favourite ingredients, Harumi presents recipes for soups, starters, snacks, party dishes, main courses and family feasts that are quick and simple to prepare, all presented in her effortless, down-to-earth and unpretentious approach to stylish living and eating. Every recipe is photographed and includes beautiful step by steps that show key Japanese cooking techniques such as chopping skills or how to serve rice. Texture and flavour are important to Japanese food and Harumi takes you through the basic sauces you can make at home and the staples you should have in your store cupboard. Photographed by award-winning photographer Jason Lowe, this warm and approachable cookbook invites you to cook and share Japanese food in a simple and elegant style.

Promotion info

Specially shot photography throughout, by award-winning photographer, Jason Lowe. Harumi's previous book, Harumi's Japanese Cooking, published by Conran Octopus, was voted Best Book Ever at the Gourmand Cook Book Awards. Harumi has sold over 20 million copies of her cookbooks - testimony to her approachable and enduring appeal. This is authentic, Japanese home cooking that everyone can do.

Author description

Harumi Kurihara's cooking, lifestyle books and magazines have made the charismatic former housewife a phenomenon in her native Japan and she has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. She currently has more than 60 shops and cafes in Japan that sell her homeware, cookware and clothing ranges. Her success is rooted in her effortless, down-to-earth and unpretentious approach to stylish living and eating, which follows a philosophy of elegance and simplicity. Harumi's own inspiration derives from her traditional upbringing in a big family in central Japan. Later, as a full-time housewife and mother, married to Reiji Kurihara, a former TV anchorman, she found her talent to create delicious, simple to prepare, fashionable meals, without great expense. This skill, combined with her eye for simple, beautiful and practical home decoration has made her the most celebrated lifestyle authority in Japan.

Table of contents

Introduction Stock cupboard Cooking Rice Sauces Dressing Aubergine Asparagus Beef Carrots Cauliflower Chicken Cucumber Egg Fish Ginger Miso Noodles Pork Pumpkin Potato Rice Salad Shellfish Spinach Sesame Tofu Vegetables Watercress Acknowledgements