Cooking Nikkei food at home – how to use this book

In most Nikkei households, Japanese, Nikkei and the national cuisine go hand-in-hand and it would be difficult to consider one without reference to the others. At our Nikkei home in Brazil and now in the UK, we adopted the Japanese washoku philosophy of providing a balanced meal, not only in terms of nutritional value but also considering other aspects such as flavour, cooking methods, colour and presentation. One outcome of this method is that the sheer variety helps achieve satiety without excess, and my approach in this book is similar.