Cibi: Simple Japanese-Inspired Meals to Share With Family and Friends

by Meg Tanaka, Zenta Tanaka

Cibi - meaning 'a little one' - is a book on home-style Japanese cooking inspired by the eponymous Melbourne café and design space created by Meg and Zenta Tanaka. It contains 80 seasonally relevant recipes across vegetables, fish and seafood, meat, grains and noodles, and sweets, plus small features on elements of Japanese cooking and food culture, accompanied by beautiful photography and illustrations. The recipes, many designed for sharing, strongly reflect Meg and Zenta's ethos – a fresh approach to simplicity using quality produce. CIBI incorporates elements of Japanese design culture and glimpses of their young family's worlds in Collingwood, Tokyo, and Meg's birthplace, Okayama, alongside snapshots (in words and pictures) of the an enjoyment of food, community and sharing.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

232 pages, Hardcover

Published November 6, 2018

Reviews

[Opal Edgar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yummy Japanese cookbook with a few Western twists from a restaurant I would love to try in Melbourne.
It's fresh, colourful, with plenty of takes on veggies and makes you want to eat healthy.
Warning, this is from a restaurant, so the recipes often use a lot of ingredients, and can be a little time-consuming, but I've found some can be shortcut and simplified very successfully. I really enjoy this cookbook.

[Conor · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to give this book six stars. Of all the (awkwardly numerous) cookbooks I own, this is the one that has the fewest recipes I'd skip. I would make just about everything in it - it's absolutely wonderful.