Water, Wood, And Wild Things : Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life. --Maira Kalman
An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans
One night, Brooklyn-based artist and food writer Hannah Kirshner received a life-changing invitation to apprentice with a saké evangelist in a misty Japanese mountain village called Yamanaka. In a rapidly modernizing Japan, the region--a stronghold of the country's old-fashioned ways--was quickly becoming a destination for chefs and artisans looking to learn about the traditions that have long shaped Japanese culture.
Product details
- Hardback | 368 pages
- 145 x 218 x 35.56mm | 521.63g
- 25 Mar 2021
- Penguin Adult
- Pamela Dorman Books
- United States
- English
- 49 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
- 1984877526
- 9781984877529