Title:	Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style: A Cookbook
	Author:	Sonoko Sakai
	Published:	November 12, 2024, Knopf
	No. of Pages:	352
	Cover Price:	$22.06 Hardcover, $19.99 Kindle

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Every country has its traditional cuisine, and those who love Japanese cuisine may want to pick up Sonoko Sakai’s Cookbook, Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style: A Cookbook, where she teaches how to cook real Japanese dishes at home. It is a beautiful cookbook and includes beautiful, professional photographs of some of the dishes, as well as colorful illustrations that make the book seem more fun.

There are recipes for basic Japanese sauces which most cooks will find helpful, as well as many Japanese dishes. The recipes are written in the traditional manner, so they are easy to follow. However, many of the dishes are very involved and have very long lists of ingredients which can put off any cook who is in a hurry. There are also many recipes that call for Japanese ingredients that aren’t available at mainstream grocery stores, so readers will need to make a special trip to an Asian grocery store to obtain what is needed. Although many cookbooks include recipes for homemade pasta, Sakai includes both homemade ramen noodles as well as soba noodles. Those of us who love to make homemade pasta at home will be making these noodles often.

All told, this is one cookbook that is for someone who likes to spend a lot of time in the kitchen and is okay with lots of ingredients. It is an excellent cookbook – well written with appealing recipes for authentic Japanese food lovers.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.