Vegan Japan

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Japanese food defies easy categorization. It’s wholesome home-cooked meals composed of a small soup, a simply prepared protein, a vegetable, and a bowl of rice. It’s savory fried street foods and comforting noodles. It’s yoshoku, Western dishes given playful Japanese spins. It’s a cuisine that embraces seasonality and celebrates the subtle flavors and textures of the myriad vegetables that make their way onto the Japanese plate. Japanese-French author Julia Boucachard grew up devouring all of th