Learn to cook authentic Japanese food at home, step by step! Maori Murota teaches you how to easily prepare the essential dishes of Japanese family cuisine (like udon, soba, dashi, onigiri, tofu) so that you have the building blocks for all the classic dishes, from ramen to miso soup and Japanese curry, to gyoza, okonamiyaki and tonkatsu pork. Learn how to ferment soy, as well as how to cook rice, vegetables, and meats the Japanese way, and discover modern takes on Japanese classics, with burnt eggplants in soy sauce or duck marinated in miso-honey. Here are 100 recipes to take you to the heart of Japanese home cooking.