The drinking of green tea has always been both a soothing refuge from life's hectic pace and a social pleasure. This book encompasses those essential elements and features modern versions of the traditional foods - Kaiseki cuisine - that accompany the Japanese tea ceremony. Kaiseki is characterized by the use of dashi (light fish stock); grilled, simmered and steamed foods using a minimum of fat and oils. The recipes feature cucumbers, eggplants, squashes, okra, ginger, radishes, potatoes, mushrooms, basil-like shiso, persimmons, kumquats, plums, grapes, smoked fish, chicken and duck. Interwoven into the text are anecdotes and stories relating to the tea ceremony and Japanese culture.
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This unusual book offers an intriguing and readable introduction to the Japanese tea ceremony and the foods that accompany it, what is called Kaiseki cuisine. Former chef Vitell (A Taste of Heaven and Earth, LJ 8/93) is now an assistant at the San Francisco branch of an international school of tea. In spare, elegant prose, perfectly suited to her subject, she describes the ceremony and the refined dishes that are part of it (she likens Kaiseki to the best California cuisine, but without its overelaborate presentations). Among her recipes are Baby Artichokes with Pomegranate Vinaigrette and Glaze-Grilled Salmon with Ginger. Recommended for larger cookbook collections as well as for any library where there is a special interest in Japanese culture.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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