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Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji | Goodreads

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First published November 15, 1980 © 2024 Goodreads, Inc.

Author 4 books88 followers May 7, 2014 This is a remarkable cookbook that, more than thirty years after its initial publication, has lost none of its impact. Shizuo Tsuji writes polemically, intent on persuading the world as to the merits of Japanese cuisine and, given the rise and rise of Japanese restaurants in the West - and especially in the USA, whose language this is written in - he can probably be said to have largely succeeded. He also, however, writes prescriptively and, in that regard, he'd probably be horrified by supermarket sushi, if not by instant ramen and katsu kits. The…

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