A Taste of Japan

by Lesley Downer, Minoru Yoneda

Based on a six part BBC TV series, this book aims to make Japanese cookery accessible to the home cook, while offering insight into some of the techniques of the professional chef. Part of the appeal of Japanese food is that because it is low in fat and high in minerals, it is very healthy.

Genres: Cookbooks

244 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

I write historical fiction set in Japan - women’s untold stories, largely true and based on meticulous and detailed research, though primarily, of course, good yarns. I’ve just finished The Shogun’s Queen, the fourth of The Shogun Quartet, four novels set in the nineteenth century during the tumultuous fifteen years when Japan was convulsed by civil war and transformed from rule by the shoguns into a society that looked to the west.
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The second, The Last Concubine, was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year 2009 and translated into 30 languages. The other two novels are The Courtesan and the Samurai and The Samurai’s Daughter. My non-fiction on Japan includes Geisha: The Remarkable Truth Behind the Fiction and Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West. I’m also a journalist and travel writer, give lectures and teach Creative Writing at City University in London.