Donabe Cookbook

Donabe Cookbook by Naoko Takei Moore & Kyle Connaughton

Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking

Donabe (Japanese clay pot) is Japan's beloved everyday cookware and is the perfect expression of Japanese home cooking. Gorgeously and lavishly photographed, Donabe highlights authentic Japanese donabe cooking, with beloved recipes and updated classics that showcase the beauty and versatility of these traditional kitchen tools. donabe cooking has been refined over centuries into a multi-faceted and simple, one vessel method of cooking that can be used for cooking soup and rice, simmering, steaming, or even smoking.

Donabe represents Naoko’s passion, experience, and knowledge about donabe and donabe cooking. This book also includes several chef-style California- inspired dishes including Crab Rice with Charred Scallion and Tat Soi – all rich in flavor and simple to prepare, by a noted chef Kyle Connaughton. The book also features non-traditional recipes from luminary chefs such as David Kinch, Josef Centeno, Namae Shinobu, Cortney Burns, and Nick Balla, all of whom utilize donabe in their own kitchens.

hardcover 306 pages

size 9" x 9"