The Japanese Pantry

From Sake to Soy, Essential Ingredients for Japanese Home Cooking
By Emiko Davies

$55.00

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About The Japanese Pantry

Essential Japanese pantry dishes from Emiko Davies, author of Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking.

The Japanese Pantry is a follow up to Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking, Emiko’s tribute to her mother’s family and her soul food — Japanese home cooking.

In The Japanese Pantry, Emiko explores the pantry items essential to Japanese home cooking. Simple, easy-to-find ingredients that can be combined with fresh produce and a few other basics like tofu, rice and noodles to create delicious and authentic Japanese food no matter where you are.

Each chapter explores one of these essential ingredients – soy sauce, miso, rice vinegar, seaweed, sake, sesame and tea – including information about the history and production of these in Japan, as well as Emiko’s thoughtful and approachable recipes.

In helping readers get to know these pantry essentials, Emiko hopes to give home cooks the confidence to make authentic Japanese dishes that are inherently simple and full of flavour.

Book details

ISBN
9781923239463
Publication date
November 2025 ()
October 2025 (US)
October 2025 (UK)
Dimensions
255 mm × 190 mm
Extent
272 pages
Binding
Hardback

About the author

Emiko Davies is an award-winning Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer and cookbook author. Growing up in a diplomatic family, she spent most of her life living in countries other than her own, from China to the USA. She now calls Italy home.

Emiko is the author of five cookbooks, Florentine: The True Cuisine of Florence (2016), Acquacotta (2017), Tortellini at Midnight (2019), Torta della Nonna (2021) and Cinnamon & Salt: Cicchetti in Venice (2022). She writes and develops recipes and travel guides for publications such as Food52, Financial Times, Corriere della Sera, Good Food Australia, The Canberra Times, Saveur, Conde Nast Traveler, Gourmet Traveller, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, The Kitchn, delicious magazine, and more.