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description: Japanese Farm Food offers a unique look into life on a Japanese farm through 165 simple clear-flavored recipes along with personal stories and over 350 stunning photographs. It is a book about love community and life in rural Japan. Nancy Singleton Hachisu's second book Preserving the Japanese Way takes a deeper look into the techniques recipes and local producers associated with Japanese preserving.Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012: USA Winner Best Japanese Cuisine Book Our life centers on the farm and the field. We eat what we grow. --Nancy Singleton HachisuJapanese Farm Food offers a unique window into life on a Japanese farm through the simple clear-flavored recipes cooked from family crops and other local organic products. The multitude of vibrant images by Kenji Miura of green fields a traditional farmhouse antique baskets and ceramic bowls filled with beautiful simple dishes are interwoven with Japanese indigo fabrics to convey an intimate authentic portrait of life and food on a Japanese farm. With a focus on fresh and thoughtfully sourced ingredients the recipes in Japanese Farm Food are perfect for fans of farmers' markets and for home cooks looking for accessible Japanese dishes. Personal stories about family and farm life complete this incredible volume.American born and raised Nancy Singleton Hachisu lives with her husband and teenage sons on a rural Japanese farm where they prepare these 165 bright seasonal dishes. The recipes are organized logically with the intention of reassuring you how easy it is to cook Japanese food. Not just a book about Japanese food Japanese Farm Food is a book about love life on the farm and community. Covering everything from pickles and soups to noodles rice and dipping sauces with a special emphasis on vegetables Hachisu demystifies the rural Japanese kitchen laying bare the essential ingredients equipment and techniques needed for Japanese home cooking.Nancy Hachisu is...intrepid. Outrageously creative. Intensely passionate. Committed. True and real. I urge you to cook from this book with abandon but first read it like a memoir chapter by chapter and you will share in the story of a modern-day family a totally unique and extraordinary one. --Patricia WellsThis book is both an intimate portrait of Nancy's life on the farm and an important work that shows the universality of an authentic food culture. --Alice WatersThe modest title Japanese Farm Food turns out to be large embracing and perhaps surprising. Unlike the farm-to-table life as we know it here where precious farm foods are cooked with recipes often with some elaboration real farm food means eating the same thing day after day when its plentiful putting it up for when it's not and cooking it very very simply because the farm demands so much more time in the field than in the kitchen. This beautiful touching and ultimately common sense book is about a life that's balanced between the idea that a life chooses you and that you in turn choose it and then live it wholeheartedly and largely. Thank you Nancy for sharing your rich intentional and truly inspiring life. --Deborah MadisonNancy Hachisus amazing depth of knowledge of Japanese food and culture shines through in every part of this book. You will feel as if you live next door to her...savoring and learning her down-to-earth approach to cooking and to loving food. --Hiroko ShimboTaking a peek into Nancy Hachisu's stunning Japanese Farm Food is like entering a magical world. It's a Japan that used to be not the modern Japan defined by the busyness of Tokyo but a more timeless place a place whose rhythms are set by seasons and traditions and the work of the farm. Japanese Farm Food is so much more than a cookbook. This book has soul. Every vegetable every tool has a story. Who grew this eggplant? Who made this soy sauce? Nancy doesn't have to ask Where does my food come from? She knows. Here's a woman who grows and harvests her own rice grain by grain. Not that she asks or expects us to do the same at all. What she does offer is a glimpse into her life in rural Japan with its shoji screens and filtered light and recipes from her farm kitchen that you can't wait to try. --Elise Bauer SimplyRecipes.comJapanese Farm Food is a lovely book about the culture landscape and food of Japan a true insider's view of the Japanese kitchen from farm to table by a passionate and talented writer. --Michael Ruhlman
language: English
title: Japanese Farm Food
publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing