Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art Capa dura - 1997

Born the son of a baker, Tsuji graduated from prestigious Waseda University in Tokyo with a degree in French literature, and then found a job as an Osakabased reporter for the Tokyo daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun. It was after being given an assignment to write a feature article on cooking schools in Japan that he traded pen for pan and, with the encouragement of his entrepreneur father-in-law, devoted several years of intensive study to Japanese cooking before going abroad to train with the great chefs of Europe.

Tsuji returned to Osaka in 1960 and developed his father-in-law's small cooking school for housewives into the present academy for professionals with an enrollment of 2,500 students. Today an expert staff of 220 offers intensive one-year courses on Japanese, French, and Chinese cooking with classes six days a week. Tsuji followed the present volume with Practical Japanese Cooking: Easy and Elegant, a full-color presentation of some of Japan's most popular dishes.

Few writers have written more eloquently about food in the past forty years than M.F.K. Fisher. Her books include The Art of Eating and The Cooking of Provincial France (Time-Life), and she has also translated and annotated BrillatSavarin's Physiology of Taste, the Bible of all serious eaters.

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