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Bento Boxes: Japanese Meals on the Go
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| Part No: | 4889960732 |
| Manufacturer: | Japan Publications Trading |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9784889960730
- Condition: New
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This book offers an elegant way to enjoy delicious, healthy food on the run. Includes more than 40 main dish recipes and step-by-step illustrations.
| I guess a few years ago there was a bit of a bento craze on the internet which sent people flocking to their kitchens to create apple pigs and space-themed omelet cutouts. Since then, the word "bento" to western culture has come to mean artfully crafted edible playthings squeezed together in a neat little box. This book will definitely give you a nice introduction to Japanese bento foods, and the recipes do work (I got a really nice orange and cabbage salad from this book.) But it predates the trend for style, and cutesy bento enthusiasts would probably a bit disappointed by the straightforwardness of the recipes and presentation.
In fact, there is little to no text besides the recipes. There's no explanation of what bento is, how it has evolved, or any of the usual literature that generally comes at the beginning of a novelty cookbook. The book is organized in a dreadfully popular quick-n-easy style and the recipes begin immediately from the first page. There are a lot of recipes, but they seem to be organized by the box, meaning there is no "mains" section and "sides" section, and so forth.
What kept me from liking this book the most, though, was that I didn't find anything really inspiring or challenging in the recipes. I am well versed in Japanese ingredients and cooking so nothing in here was very foreign to me, and I was personally hoping, for such a seminal book on the subject, to find some surprises or challenges and there really weren't any. Many of the recipes were oversimplified and some seem like they were thrown in there to fill the book. And even with that, it's still a pretty thin book. The photography is also not so fresh looking, and there is little food styling advice. I think this book is exhaustive of the basics of Japanese lunch food but these days it comes up short as a one-stop bento book. |
| Excellent recipes, except for | 2010-04-02 | 4 / 5 |
| I purchased two Bento Boxes for my husband and I to use for lunch. This book had excellent reviews, and the recipes are simple, easy and the pictures gorgeous.
However, most recipes utilize shellfish (which I'm allergic too) and I was really hoping there would be a good focus on vegetarian or other alternate bento recipes. So, if you have no allergies - awesome book. If you have shellfish allergies, about 1/3 of the recipes are good. |
| yummy bento! | 2010-03-01 | 4 / 5 |
| | I love this book. That said, I only actually bought it because I knew there were a few good asian market groceries in my city, so I was confident that I could find things that I needed. It's a surprisingly thin book, but packed with huge color photos and visual instructions so I find it a lot more useful than some of my text-book-size cook books. And the one last annoying thing, that I've discovered in this book (and several other "bento" cookbooks") is that the recipes make single servings. I double or triple most recipes just because I cook for more than one person, and even if I'm the only one eating it, i'd like to at least have left-overs so I don't have to cook again for every single meal. |
| Impossible to find ingredients | 2009-12-04 | 1 / 5 |
| | I have yet to make a single recipe from this book. I live in a small town in the Southeastern United States, and these ingredients are simply not to be found. What a shame! |
| Very Japanese | 2009-11-27 | 3 / 5 |
| | I bought this to go along with the Mr. Bento lunch jar I bought. I was a little disappointed the recipes were not using common ingredients you would find in a normal grocery store. Some of the recipes looked good, and some were simple enough, but honestly dont think I will try any of them. I was looking for new luch ideas to take to work, and this wasnt what I wanted. |
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