Nancy Singleton Hachisu – an American who is married to a Japanese farmer and has lived in rural Japan since 1988 – faced a daunting task when she was asked to write a cookbook about the cuisine of her adopted country. Although she had written two cookbooks focusing on Japanese food – Japanese Farm Food (2012) and Preserving the Japanese Way (2015) – she didn’t realise what she was taking on with Japan: The Cookbook (2018).
She doesn’t regret it, though, as...
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