Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking: Memories and Stories from My Familys Kitchen

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2024 - COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE ANDR SIMON FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS 2024 - SPECIAL COMMENDATIONSimple, everyday Japanese cooking from best-selling author Emiko Davies.An exquisite but refreshingly down to earth guide to everyday Japanese and Yoshoku (think East meets West) cooking, with recipes that inspire and invite. - Nigella LawsonEvery time I look at this book I feel a lightness. The inside is as lovely as the cover. - Diana HenryPractically any home-cooked Japanese meal revolves around rice. It sits beside miso soup, pickles, tofu and a piece of grilled fish at breakfast. It soaks up the sauce in a comforting donburi bowl, or is wrapped in nori for the ultimate portable lunch - onigiri. And its there for dinner, perhaps served with a pickled plum, some mild Japanese curry, braised fish or even a Japanese-style Hamburg steak.The everyday meals, cooked in the homes of Japanese mothers and grandmothers, is the food that Emiko grew up with. Theyre the dishes she makes for her own children: simple, satisfying food like tamagonogohan (stir fried egg and rice), soba noodle soup, Japanese curry, yakisoba, and miso soup, prepared with whatever seasonal vegetables happen to be around.Unlike what many people think, Japanese home cooking is not fiddly, nor time consuming. Its quick and remarkably simple, thanks to the Japanese philosophy that fresh, seasonal food doesnt need much to enhance its natural flavor.Gohan to me means the everyday home-cooked meal. Nothing fussy. Its quick and easy, but nourishing. A meal made with love.