Everyday Recipes from A Japanese Home Kitchen
Umai: Recipes From A Japanese Home Kitchen by Millie Tsukagoshi Lagares is a Japanese cookbook centred on the everday dishes, flavours and food culture of the Japanese home kitchen.
Featuring more than 80 recipes, Umai covers easy lunches, family favourites, sharing dishes and simple desserts. Alongside the recipes, Millie explores different aspectes of Japanese food culture, from traditional izakaya and teishoku restaurants to local bakeries, providing context for the dishes and the ways in which they are eaten in Japane.
The Japanese word Umai means 'delicious', and the book focuses on approachable home cooking rather than elaborate restaurant style cuisine. Recipes draw on the food Millie grew up eating, offering an accessible introduction to authentic Japanese cooking and everyday meals.
- Hardback
- Publisher Quadrille
- 256 × 195 mm
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240 pages
- Recipes by Millie Tsukagoshi Lagares
Millie Tsukagoshi Lagares is a home cook based in Tokyo. After working in the food industry in London, she moved to Japan, her mother's birthplace, to write her first cookbook. Her cooking draws on her Japanese heritage and the home-cooked food of her childhood, with an emphasis on making Japanese cuisine approachable for home cooks.
