Coffee table book: Vegan Recipes from Japan

This is more than a cookbook about Japanese cuisine. Malte Hartig is an expert in Japanese Kaseki cuisine. Today, the term is used for a special style of a light multi-course menu consisting of 7-10 different dishes in a Japanese restaurant. It is a particularly light meal that is strictly vegetarian in keeping with its origins in Zen philosophy. Great care is taken to select the ingredients and prepare them in such a way that their own flavor is highlighted. The recipes are therefore simple, but excellent in combination and taste. The vegetables are prepared according to the seasons from the garden or the weekly market with few ingredients. This cookbook combines local vegetables and fruits, rice and other grains with Japanese ingredients such as miso, soy sauce, sake, the sweet wine mirin or soup stock dashi, and is prepared using Japanese cooking techniques such as tempura and Japanese-style grilling. They are simple and light, nourish body and soul and open up a new perspective on cooking and how we handle food. The accompanying text illuminates the cultural background of the recipes and tells entertaining stories from the land of the rising sun. When a philosopher and a trained chef team up with a gardener and a food photographer, you can expect something special.