Takashi’s Noodles

With his simple yet sophisticated recipes, James Beard Award-winning chef Takashi Yagihashi introduces American home cooks to essential Japanese comfort food by combining traditional Japanese influences, French techniques, and more than 20 years of cooking in the Midwest. Takashi explains noodle nuances and explores each style's distinct regional identity while emphasizing quick-to-the-table shortcuts, the use of fresh and dried packaged noodles, and kid-friendly dishes. Takashi, an expert guide, recalls his childhood in Japan and leads cooks on a discovery tour of the rich bounty of Japanese noodles that is so easily accessible today.

Takashi's Noodles aims to show Westerners how quick and simple authentic Japanese cooking can be, with seven chapters each dedicated to a different type of noodle and even the odd recipe focusing on packet noodles. The detailed recipes for chilled crab and shrimp ramen salad, stuffed chicken wings, and corned beef with rice noodles by Yagihashi are not to be missed. In addition to the hot and cold recipes, Yagihashi uses this book to teach readers about traditional Japanese ingredients and cooking techniques, as well as provide extensive guidance on selecting the right type of noodle for each dish.

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