Quick Daikon Pickles Two speedy recipes for daikon pickles, one using the radish root, the other, the leafy green tops. This traditional Japanese fishcake stew is an ideal dish to share on blustery evenings. Each February, Japan is home to several unusual snow festivals, one world-renowned, the other very local. Kiritanpo Kiritanpo is a traditional winter regional dish from Akita Prefecture in the northwest part of Japan. A recipe from your Japanese Food Host.
Clams come into season and are associated with early spring in Japan.
This picture-pretty soup is typically served on March 3rd for Girls' Day, and also for wedding feasts. Here are recipes for tonkatsu and for katsu-don, fried pork cutlet served over a bowl of rice. A Taste of Japan Essays about Japanese food by Donald Richie, a long-time observer of Japanese culture. A stylish and stylized book in the Periplus series on Pacific Rim cooking. First published in 1980, this remains the most complete reference on Japanese cooking for Westerners.