Japanese Comfort Cooking: An Opinionated Guide to Modern, Homey, Classic Japanese Recipes
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Chef Tadashi Ono and food writer Harris Salat share dishes Japanese families actually prepare throughout the week. Building on nearly two decades of collaboration, they emphasize practical cooking that relies on well-made pantry staples, seasonal ingredients, and straightforward techniques instead of restaurant-level complexity.
More than one hundred recipes range from everyday miso soups, soba, simmered vegetables, and broiled fish to Japanese sandwiches, karaage, rice dishes, and contemporary favorites such as miso-marinated steak and wagyu burgers. Throughout, the authors encourage readers to stock the essential ingredients of a Japanese kitchen, showing how soy sauce, miso, mirin, sake, and dashi make it possible to assemble deeply flavored meals with minimal effort.
Alongside the recipes are practical lessons on advance preparation, building a repertoire of make-ahead side dishes, and adapting meals to whatever is already in the refrigerator. An approachable guide that captures the balance of tradition, flexibility, and everyday satisfaction at the heart of modern Japanese home cooking.
Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.
Published on June 9, 2026
