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Yoshihiro Narisawa. Satoyama Cuisine

Yoshihiro Narisawa innovates gastronomy through the eyes of nature in Satoyama Cuisine. Bringing foraged ingredients—wild flowers, soil, shaved bark—to fine dining, satoyama symbolizes harmony between humans and nature. Inaugurating a new category in cookbooks, with photographs by Sergio Coimbra, this is at once an immersive trip into Narisawa’s recipes and culinary universe—from where he buys his ingredients to the artisans who create his knives—and a visual journey through Japan, exploring its forests, seas, and the root of all food: the earth.

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Sustainable Gastronomy

Yoshihiro Narisawa’s manifesto on cuisine in harmony with the natural world

Award-winning Japanese chef Yoshihiro Narisawa has turned to his homeland and nature to develop his innovative satoyama cuisine and culinary philosophy. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of foraging for ingredients on the land between mountains and villages, the area of satoyama, and by similar traditional methods for gathering food, Narisawa has created recipes and dining experiences based on the sustainable use of native ingredients.

Also using foodstuffs from coastal waters and forests, from seaweed and sea snakes to wild flowers and even soil, the recipes are presented and shown in stunning photographs by world-renowned Brazilian food photographer Sergio Coimbra. But this is more than a book of recipes, it is a new kind of gastronomy book that explores the background of where the ingredients are sourced and also how the chef works with the craftsmen who makes his knives and tableware. This attention to every stage of the supply chain is another aspect of satoyama, and in the course of the journeys Narisawa and Coimbra made the book has also become a visual travel guide to Japan and its history and traditions. In this way it is not just the chef’s creations that are presented, but the food in its full context, including the processes involved, and a culinary perspective that combines tradition with modern ideas.

Collector’s Edition of 1,000 copies, each signed by Yoshihiro Narisawa and Sergio Coimbra

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Brand
Taschen
Article number
66297
Pages
416
Measurements
Length
33 cm
Weight
15 kg
Width
40 cm

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