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Japanese recipe site written by Makiko Itoh, who covers Japanese home cooking and food culture. Posts include recipes and background on ingredients.
Japanese home cooking with cultural and ingredient background from a long-running blog.
The About page covers the author's background, and a separate Japanese-language page sits alongside it.
Visit linkArticles on the holiday season in Japan, covering the Christmas period and the run-up to New Year.
Visit linkA recipe index, sortable by name and by category, that serves as the main route into the site's Japanese recipes.
Visit linkThe site has run since 2003 as a Japanese home-cooking resource with background notes. Its Japanese Cooking 101 guide to washoku, a worldwide list of Japanese grocery stores and the Just Bento cookbooks sit beside the recipes. A new translation of an izakaya cookbook and Japan Times pieces on social media and food show the author writing about the cuisine for wider readers. Some recipes, such as Katsura Morimura's banana cake and tenshinhan, come with cultural background.
Read the noteStart with the Japanese Cooking 101 washoku guide and the worldwide grocery store list, which covers the ingredients the recipes rely on.
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