Paperback: 112 pages

Publisher: Kodansha USA (October 1, 2010)Language: English Product Dimensions: 7.5″ x 9.8″ x 0.4″SKU#: 93295Japan’s celebrated kaiseki master,Yoshihiro Murata, has combined his culinary expertise with his enthusiasm for sharing Japanese cuisine into one book: Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata.This book contains 60 healthy home recipes, from classic to modern, that are popular all over Japan. All of the dishes can be made using Western kitchen tools and ordinary ingredients from the supermarket. With his trademark charisma, Chef Murata shows how easy and fun it can be to made tasty, popular Japanese dishes like beef teriyaki at home from scratch. With his versatile sauce, you can also create tempting teriyaki dishes of your own using healthy ingredients such as fish or tofu. Sukiyaki, tempura, hot pot, yakitori grilled chicken, salad with peanut dressing- in these pages you will find making all these favorites to be surprisingly simple.Chef Yoshihiro Murata, a distinguished authority on Japanese cooking, is renowned for his ability to combine tradition with innovation. He is the third generation chef-owner of the restaurant Kikunoi, which serves kaiseki cuisine, a refined and stylized approach to cooking derived from the Japanese tea ceremony, which has its roots in Zen Buddhism. Murata’s restaurants have been awarded seven Michelin stars- more than any other in Japan.