Japanese Cooking - Contemporary & Traditional
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Authors: Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner
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BOOK: Japanese Cooking - Contemporary & Traditional
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© 1999 Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner
Cover photograph: Don McGarrah Photography Inc.
Cover design: Jeanne Kahan
Cover food stylist: Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner
Interior design: Warren Jefferson
Cover design: Jeanne Kahan
Cover food stylist: Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner
Interior design: Warren Jefferson
Pictured on font cover, clockwise from upper left: Vegetarian Eel Over Rice (Unaju or Unagi Donburi), page 142; Fried Tofu Dumplings (Hirosu), page 81; Daikon Salad with Lime-Ume Dressing (Daikon Salada), page 164
Pictured on back cover, clockwise from lower left: Bottom tray—Fried Tofu Dumplings (Hirosu), page 81; Stewed (Ni-Mono) konnyaku, carrots, lotus root, burdock root, page 128; Upper Box (clockwise form left)—Freeze-Dried Tofu (Koya dofu), page 82; Stewed (Ni-Mono) taro root and bamboo shoots, page 128; Bowl on right—New Year’s Stew with O-Mochi (Ozoni), page 69
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Schinner, Miyoko Nishimoto,
Japanese cooking Contemporary & traditional: simple, delicious, and vegan / Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner.
P. Cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-57067-072-2 (alk. paper)
1. Vegetarian cookery. 2. Cookery, Japanese. I. Title.
II. Title. Contemporary and traditional Japanese cooking.
TX837.S29 1999
641.5’636’0952—dc21
98-54936
CIP
Introduction
Historical and New Flavors of Japan
I
shi-yaki-imo! Ishi-yaki-imo! The singsong cry of the sweet potato peddler would echo again and again, resounding into every home on the street. Children and mothers, lured by the sweet smell, would run out to buy the simple treat from the hand-pulled cart, heavily laden with sweet potatoes buried in hot rocks. I remember, too, as a young child being lured by the beauty of the cry, warming my hands over the rocks in the cart and biting into the smoky sweetness of roasted yams.
shi-yaki-imo! Ishi-yaki-imo! The singsong cry of the sweet potato peddler would echo again and again, resounding into every home on the street. Children and mothers, lured by the sweet smell, would run out to buy the simple treat from the hand-pulled cart, heavily laden with sweet potatoes buried in hot rocks. I remember, too, as a young child being lured by the beauty of the cry, warming my hands over the rocks in the cart and biting into the smoky sweetness of roasted yams.
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