Harumi's Japanese Cooking: More than 75 Authentic and Contemporary Recipes from Japan's Most Popular Cooking Expert

Harumi has great style, good taste, and easy to follow recipes to unlock traditional Japanese dishes. Try Chinese style dumplings ( gyoza), pan-fried noodles with pork and boo Choy, deep fried tofu with Japanese dressing(agedashi dofu), and my personal favorite Tofu steak. Everything I have cooked from this book was delicious!

Harumi's recipes are just the thing if you'd like to try your hand at some simple Japanese dishes. Her directions are clear and most of the ingredients are not too hard to find. If you try her recipes for green beans with ground meat or green beans with black sesame sauce, for instance, you will have created dishes that are simple, pleasing, and, well, Japanese. And if you've ever been to Japan and had that delicious pancake called okonomiyaki, then longed to reproduce it, Harumi gives you a pretty good recipe for making it right at home. Her variations on miso soup are good, too. I am less tempted by the "fusion" type dishes like "tofu with basil and gorgonzola dressing," which seem a bit odd to me. And the book does, annoyingly, lack an index, although it has a good glossary. I haven't tried all of her recipes, but my favorite so far is her easy and homey take on gyoza (dumplings). And although she has some recipes for making sushi, I'm leaving that job to the excellent sushi chefs in Portland (Maine).

Great book; I learned a lot about Japanese cooking. Most of the recipes are great. I had a couple of so-sos - her okonomiyaki batter is unusual, not the same as other recipes I've seen and it was a bit gummy. She also has a salmon recipe where she cooks the salmon plain in the microwave before assembling the dish. Sorry Harumi, but the thought of microwaved salmon was a bit horrifying; I pan-fried it instead. But overall a great cookbook. The best thing about it is that while Japanese cookbooks can tend toward the haute, with ornate, beautiful, technical dishes, Harumi's book focuses on homestyle recipes cooked every day in Japanese households, which is exactly what I was looking for.

This cookbook has some great ideas and I will probably try making one or two recipes in it. It is not an traditional Japanese cuisine cookbook. Its like saying that all of Martha Stewart's recipes are traditional American cuisine. All of Harumi's recipes have quality ingredients and the book explains any new or different cooking techniques quite well, but most of the recipes are not something I really want to eat. It is a good book and its not Harumi's fault that I dont like a lot of ingredients she uses. I do think it was worth the price since I love looking at cookbooks to get new ideas for cooking. I may not use very many recipes from her book, but it does give me good ideas for influencing my home cooking.

I've only cooked two recipes from this book, but I've also tasted some recipes taken from her other books, and I believe this woman knows what she's doing! Each recipe has a picture, so you have an idea of what you're aiming to make, and she does a pretty good job of explaining what certain ingredients are and what good substitutions would be if that ingredient is not easily accessible. There are some instances in which she'll say, "cook" but not for how long, but I think it's pretty easy to deduct about how long something should cook for. I'm definitely planning on buying her other books at some point.

Love Harumi's books. Her recipes are so delicious and healthy. Although I am cooking for many years now, I still learn new tricks from Harumi. She is an artist in her art of cooking. I agree with her 100% that cooking for your family is reflection of your love for your family.

This was purchased as a gift for a friend who is an amazing chef. He had not ventured into Japanese cooking very often but wanted to. This book made it easy for him to follow the directions, while still adding his own flare to the dishes. He said it would be a good one for people that are not as adept at cooking as he is...very easy to understand and make the recipes happen.

I'm not trying to become an expert, I just want to be able to do Japanese cuisine faster and recognize all the ingredients.

Very well presented, straight forward explanations

While staying true to what makes Japanese cooking unique among world cuisines, Harumi's book provides a great modern twist that brings it in the realm of the everyday home kitchen. Harumi's Japanese Cooking is neither austere nor exuberant, deeply satisfying without being indulgent, modern but not trendy or faddish ... love it!

I purchased this and Everyday Harumi cookbooks. Loving it!

was a gift

Libro muy completo,buena calidad de las hojas, portada extraíble de papel. Recetas muy sencillas de hacer fuera del país de origen.