Japanese Farm Food, now available in paperback, 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. 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 Hachisu, Japanese
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 Wells "This 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 Waters "The 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 it's 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 Madison "Nancy Hachisu's 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 Shimbo "Taking 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.com "Japanese 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
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