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Home Cooking with Japan's First Lady
Family Dishes from the Hatoyama Kitchen
Miyuki Hatoyama
Photographs by Hironori Handa
Paperback 104 pages
190 x 250mm
ISBN : 978-4-7700-3131-0 / 4-7700-3131-9
Publish : Jun, 2010
Price : $19.95 |
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[ About the Book ]
The dining room of Japan's charismatic First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama has for decades resonated with the laughter of many happy hours of entertaining with her son and husband. Whether playing host to visiting dignitaries or family friends, Miyuki always welcomes guests with her characteristic geniality and wholesome, flavorful recipes. Her approach to cooking mirrors her cheerful personality-she cooks casually yet lovingly, with no frills or fuss in her recipes. A former theater performer and television actress, the rigors of life in her current role have not hindered her home cooking one bit, and she continues to cook with equal zeal and love for her husband, who comes home late from work almost always hungry.
In Home Cooking with Japan's First Lady, Miyuki presents over forty recipes for all occasions that are both easy and fun to prepare. Ranging from quick meals that can be put together in a few minutes, family favorites, party foods made easy with a unique twist, to comfort dishes with a splash of modernity, all the recipes come with the Hatoyama seal of approval and are the culmination of years of experience. This book will be an essential addition to the kitchen of anybody who is looking for quick, easy, and fun recipes with that inimitable Hatoyama touch.
About the Author
Miyuki Hatoyama is the wife of Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's 93rd prime minister and 7th president of the Democratic Party of Japan. Born in Shanghai, she was raised in Kobe in western Japan, where she attended a Missionary school. After a brief career as an actress in theater and television, she moved to the U.S. when she was in her twenties. It was here that she developed her interest in cooking, learning a great deal from American household and party recipes, and merging them with her own unique taste. It was here also that she met Yukio and gave birth to their son, Kiichiro, in California. Ten years later she returned to Japan where she supported her husband's political campaigns. Her cooking, already enjoyed by so many in the U.S., has begun to gain popularity in Japan, together with her affable, unpretentious personality, and she is now the author of an essay and three cookbooks.
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