和食――日本料理をより魅力的に見せるために生まれた「むきもの」。
料理の名脇役にスポットを当て、基本を中心にした美しい飾り切り50点あまりを、製作プロセスを細かく追った写真付きで紹介。
2010年世界包丁細工決定戦のチャンピオン島谷宗宏料理長が、丁寧に解説していきます。
野菜、果物が美しく姿を変えていく精巧な技術は料理の粋を超えて、日本人特有の繊細な美意識や連綿と受け継がれてきた日本文化にも通じるものです。
紹介する事例の数々は一流料亭の皿を彩るプロのワザですが、一般の方でも基本を押さえて練習をすれば、習得できる技術です。
いつもの野菜や果物をぜひあなたの包丁さばきで変身させて、食卓を華やかに演出してください。
パーティーなどおもてなしにもサプライズとなること間違いなし、です。
Washoku, or Japanese cuisine, can look even more attractive when completed with delicately trimmed vegetable pieces.
This book, by spotlighting basics and pretty shaping, introduces more than fifty techniques with step-by-step procedures and pictures in English.
The recent TV Champion chef shows every step carefully until an ordinary vegetables and fruit turn into beautiful creations.
His precise techniques can reach outside the cooking domain and convey the delicate Japanese sense of beauty and culture that has been handed down in an unbroken line.
Although the techniques are specially aimed at professional cooks of high-class Japanese restaurants, the techniques themselves are not so difficult as you imagine.
Learn the basics steadily and practice, and you will acquire enough skills before you even know it.
Let the author unveil secrets to liven up any party table displays with your specialized knife techniques to surprise your guests.