- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Kodansha America; 1 edition (April 2 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 4770030657
- ISBN-13: 978-4770030658
- Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 19.5 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 739 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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#71,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #23 in Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Asian > Japanese
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"...delightful. Robinsons book is more a paean to the vibrant and complicated izakaya culture than a definitive cooking guidebut the recipes, more than 60 of them, are the sort you wish more neighborhood restaurant chefs in New York would read. The New York Times Book Review
Izakaya - the Japanese Pub Cookbook celebrates unlikely foodie haunts and their cuisine, combining shochu-soaked anecdotes and pen portraits of izakaya chefs with recipes for their tasty snacks and appetizers. Reuters
Izakaya profiles several popular restaurants that offer affordable eclectic fare. USA Today
A unique work, recommended for most collections. Library Journal (Starred review)
Product Description
Izakaya are attracting growing attention both in Japan and overseas. While Japan has many guidebooks and cookbooks, and an izakaya boom is underway among Japan's youth, this is the first publication in English to delve deeply into this unique and vital cornerstone of Japanese food culture. The timing is perfect-as The New York Timessuggested last year: "In a city [LA] where small plate restaurants have been the rage for several years now, the Japanese izakaya-a pub featuring savory snacks downed with sake or cold beer-is starting to shove the sushi bar off its pedestal."
A mainstay of the nation's food culture, the izakaya is a vital venue for socializing and an increasingly innovative culinary influence. Readers of this book will be guided through many different styles of establishments and recipes. At the same time, they will learn how to cook many delicious standards and specialties and discover how to "design" a meal as the evening progresses.
Eight different Tokyo pubs are introduced, ranging from those that serve traditional Japanese "comfort food," such as yakitori (barbequed chicken), to those offering highly innovative creations. Some of them have long histories; some are more recent players on the scene. All are quite familiar to the author, who has chosen them for the variety they represent. The book includes knowledgeable text on the social and cultural etiquette of visiting izakaya, so it can be used as a guide to enter the potentially daunting world of pubs. Besides the detailed recipes, it also offers a variety of information -detailed profiles of Japanese ingredients and spices, a guide to the wide varieties of sake and other alcoholic drinks that are served, "how-to" advice on menu ordering, and more.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent ... but read the full review,
By C. J. Thompson "Arctic John" (Pond Inlet, Nunavut Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook (Hardcover)
Those who are simply looking for a Japanese cookery book should really start with something else. This book, while excellent, focuses on a special type of establishment and much of the content is about Izakayas in general as well as featuring some specific Izakayas visited by the authors. There *are* recipes included, but these are interspersed within the body of the main material. As such, this is less a collection of recipes than it is a book about food with some illustrative recipes thrown in. As such, I would have to say that this book is best suited to those with a decent collection of more mainstream Japanese cookbooks already. Those people, such as myself, will value this addition to their collections as it is well written and very nicely illustrated.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Challenging to get ingredients,
This review is from: Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook (Hardcover)
I saw the end of Anna and Krystina's Shopping Bag use of this book, and was excited that they had been able to make such good tasting Japanese food from this book. I therefore may have missed if they mentioned my experience. They both gave it a 'buy', so I did. It's a well written beautiful book, with lots of information and instructions, and a glossary.HOWEVER, almost every recipe requires ingredients that are not easily available, even at Asian food stores. There are many different ingredients needs for most of the recipes - not just 5 or so basic ones, as I had hoped. I found I had to buy large quantities of an ingredient that I only needed a tablespoon or so. One of more commonly named ones was not to be found in three Asian food stores I went to. I was not willing to invest more than a few dollars more than the initial cost of the book, so have not yet tried many of the yummy looking recipes.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook (Hardcover)
Nice photos, nice recipes.Great 'behind the scenes' look and feel of izakaya Overall a good book for those who enjoy food.
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