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, sashi, onigiri, and tofu) so that you have the building blocks of all the classic dishes, from ramen and miso soup to Japanese curry, gyoza, okonomiyaki, and tonkatsu. Learn how to ferment soy as well as how to cook rice vegetables, and meat the Japanese way, and discover modern takes on classics such as charred eggplant with soy sauce or fried chicken with sweet-chile sauce. Here are 100 recipes to take you to the heart of Japanese home cooking.