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Exploring the world of Japanese craft sake
- Title
- Exploring the world of Japanese craft sake / Nancy Matsumoto, Michael Tremblay ; foreword by John Gauntner.
- Author
- Matsumoto, Nancy
- Publication
- Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2022].
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm
- Summary
- This stunning guide invites you into the story of sake - an ancient beverage finding its way in a modern world. Whether you're a sake novice or an experienced connoisseur, Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake offers fascinating insights, practical tips, and rich stories about this popular beverage. Nancy Matsumoto and Michael Tremblay personally undertook the challenge of visiting 33 artisanal sake breweries in Japan, the US, and Canada to interview makers and document every stage of the sake brewing process.
- Series Statement
- Books to span the East & West
- Alternative Title
- Japanese craft saké
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- cookbooks.
- Cookbooks.
- Reference works.
- Livres de cuisine.
- Ouvrages de référence.
- Note
- "Rice, water, earth." -- Cover.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Rice, water, earth. Yamada Nishiki, the grand cru sake rice -- The birth of ginjo -- Hiroshima and the Saijo brewers (birth of ginjo, part II) -- The polishing wars -- The new grains : the era of the hybrid -- The heirloom rice hunters -- Crazy for omachi -- Water : hard or soft? -- Amazing shrine water -- Snow country -- Perfumed water from the palace -- Mountains and terroir -- Going organic -- Bodaimoto : the monk starter -- The alchemists: yeast, mold, makers and cooks. The father of modern kochi yeast -- The yeast hunters -- The merchants of mold -- Master brewers and the new collectives -- Reclaiming their place : women master brewers -- Sake bar nights -- Recipes and stories -- Craft sake and the world -- Where do we go from here?
- ISBN
- 9784805316511
- 4805316519
- 9781462922888 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021948934
- OCLC
- on1310352420
- 1310352420
- SCSB-14353588
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library