Features, in seasonal format, the style of cooking that began as tea ceremony accompaniment and developed into the highest form of Japanese cuisine. This book e

Kaiseki, the cooking associated with the tea ceremony, is Japan's most sublime cuisine. Every effort is made to perfectly accommodate aroma, flavor, color, text

This work, written by an ex-Ambassador to Japan, is a first-hand account and observation of the various aspects of Japanese society ? political, historical, soc

"Katarzyna Cwiertka shows that key shifts in the Japanese diet were, in many cases, a consequence of modern imperialism. Exploring reforms in home cooking and m

Whether it's a delicate green tea or a bracing Assam black, a cup of tea is a complex brew of art and industry, tradition and revolution, East and West. In this