(ggg) wrote:
[ . . . ] Does anyone recommend getting Emi Kazuko's more serious titles?
I need regular simple recipes for daily life.

ggg, I have EK's 'The Book of Japanese Cooking'. It's only 96 pp., but the
recipes are excellent, simple, varied from soup to dessert and with each
step well-illustrated. It also has short sections on Japanese Food,
Utensils, Ingredients and Cooking & Serving. I highly recommend it.

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(ggg) wrote:

[ . . . ] Does anyone recommend getting Emi Kazuko's more serious titles?
I need regular simple recipes for daily life.


ggg, I have EK's 'The Book of Japanese Cooking'. It's only 96 pp., but the
recipes are excellent, simple, varied from soup to dessert and with each
step well-illustrated. It also has short sections on Japanese Food,
Utensils, Ingredients and Cooking & Serving. I highly recommend it.

ok thanks. If you spot Cafe Japan in a bookstore and flip through it,
write again and advise how the two compare/overlap. Thanks very much.

ggg wrote:
wrote:
(ggg) wrote:

[ . . . ] Does anyone recommend getting Emi Kazuko's more serious
titles? I need regular simple recipes for daily life.


ggg, I have EK's 'The Book of Japanese Cooking'. It's only 96 pp., but
the recipes are excellent, simple, varied from soup to dessert and with
each step well-illustrated. It also has short sections on Japanese
Food, Utensils, Ingredients and Cooking & Serving. I highly recommend
it.

ok thanks. If you spot Cafe Japan in a bookstore and flip through it,
write again and advise how the two compare/overlap. Thanks very much.

Actually, I was gifted this from a gourmet chef in London. But I'll watch
for 'Cafe Japan' when I'm out and about.

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Actually, I was gifted this from a gourmet chef in London. But I'll watch
for 'Cafe Japan' when I'm out and about.

excellent thanks

This is the first time I've been interested in following a Japanese
cookbook. I like the easiness of Cafe Japan. I recently got an
Ayurveda cookbook that didn't have any pictures and required spice
shopping so it remaind untested.

ggg wrote:
[]required spice shopping so it remaind untested.

Spice and seed shopping can be fun. Google is your friend. ;~)

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Actually, I was gifted this from a gourmet chef in London. But I'll
watch
for 'Cafe Japan' when I'm out and about.

excellent thanks

This is the first time I've been interested in following a Japanese
cookbook. I like the easiness of Cafe Japan. I recently got an
Ayurveda cookbook that didn't have any pictures and required spice
shopping so it remaind untested.

ggg,

Emi Kazuko is a resident of London and is a member is a member of a
friendship group that my wife is involved with. She is frowned upon by the
Japanese members within the group as her books are so basic. In saying that,
she held a sushi class at the beginning of this month that was particularly
well received. She is respected, but her recipes can sometimes be basic.

I also find her cookbooks extremely useful and extremely user friendly for a
non native. FWIW, 2 other books that I find useful are The Classic Rice
Cookbook by Junko Takagi (ISBN: 0-87040-968-9)and The Japanese Vegetarian
Cookbook by Patricia Richfield (ISBN: 0- 7499-1412-2). Both should make
welcomed additions to any budding Japanese food lover.

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ggg wrote:

[]required spice shopping so it remaind untested.


Spice and seed shopping can be fun. Google is your friend. ;~)


It's the commitment thing. With the Japanese recipes - I am
only missing mirin and dashi and if I don't use them, it won't taste
Japanese but I will still have a meal plan. With Indian food, you have
to have all the spices - about six basic ones? otherwise it won't taste
right at all and I think I need a mortar and pestle.


Also, the ayurveda book was a used copy and smells strongly of cigarette
smoke so I might throw it out.

Graeme...in London wrote:



Emi Kazuko is a resident of London and is a member is a member of a
friendship group that my wife is involved with. She is frowned upon by the
Japanese members within the group as her books are so basic. In saying that,
she held a sushi class at the beginning of this month that was particularly
well received. She is respected, but her recipes can sometimes be basic.

I also find her cookbooks extremely useful and extremely user friendly for a
non native. FWIW, 2 other books that I find useful are The Classic Rice
Cookbook by Junko Takagi (ISBN: 0-87040-968-9)

$28 new


and The Japanese Vegetarian
Cookbook by Patricia Richfield (ISBN: 0- 7499-1412-2).

$10.17 new



Both should make
welcomed additions to any budding Japanese food lover.

--
Graeme
www.grocerytrader.co.uk






Great, I'm definitely going to get those if I graduate from the two I
already have.

I noticed with the Cafe Japan and the
bento one that similar or more current recipes and quality photography
are probably the sorts of things that are in Japanese magazines as a
matter of course. Chinese magazines have them but I can't read Chinese.
I find choosing a Chinese cookbook overwhelming.

I'm not sure I can afford
to indulge in more of her titles as they all do sound like foundation
but definitely Cafe Japan is not comprehensive. I'm not looking to be
thorough, I just need a boost as I am tired of cooking.