Tsukemono: Japanese Pickling Recipes

I bought this for my daughter who is big into nuka pickles and such. (Gets it from her Japanese grandmother) She is thrilled with the book! I read through it, and the recipes are well written, lots of pics, and for some of the pickles that I partake in, the recipes are accurate.

Best tsukemono book I've come across, and I think I own most of them. While it is hard to find copies of this book it is well worth the price to anyone serious about Japanese pickling. *highly recommended*

This book is the truth.

So glad to find this book on tsukemono. It has a good collection of recipes and illustrations to go with preparation. By the way this is the only English book on tsukemono that I can find so far.

This cookbook provides a number of "instant pickled vegetable" recipes as well as pickled ginger, garlic and other slower pickles. They range from highly salted to soy based to vinegar based to rice bran based - many we would consider simple marinated vegetables. Eggplant, burdock, cabbage, ginger, turnips, rape flower, garlic, plums, daikon, pineapple, kumquats, ... a wide variety of ingredients serve as the base for these pickles. The book shows step by step how to pickle and serve these foods in glorious style.As an added bonus for the adventuresome, several of these vegetable pickles can also substitute nicely for South Asian pickled vegetables. The "Pickled Seven Vegetables" can be used as a chutney or salsa. "Asparagus in Mustard Soy Sauce" and "Grilled and Poached Peppers" can serve as side dishes. In short, the usefulness of this cookbook is not limited to those with an interest in Japanese cooking.

Lots of pickles! Great photos and instructions/recipes.