Cookbook Watch: 'Japanese Farm Food'

Holiday traffic, gift shopping, partying…. It’s a relief to slow down with a good cookbook that reflects an idyllic life on a farm in northern Japan, where the cooking revolves around food that’s grown at home and prepared simply. “Japanese Farm Food” by Nancy Singleton Hachishu, who moved from California to Japan and ended up marrying a farmer and living in his ancestral home two hours from Tokyo, is a transporting respite.

By Betty Hallock

December 19, 2012