Maori Murota teaches you how to easily prepare the basic dishes of Japanese family cuisine thanks to detailed step by step instructions and gorgeous photos. A comprehensive cookbook featuring the traditional recipes she grew up with as well as blending some of her own original recipes inspired by other foreign cuisines, these are the recipes that will take you on a journey to the heart of Japanese cuisine today.  Residing in a small French town during the pandemic, Maori realized just how difficult it was to find Japanese products in the shops available to her. She started making her very own udon noodles, gyoza dough, and fermenting tsukemono pickles, and soon found out how much joy there was in cooking from scratch, just as her mother and grandmother did. With vegan alternatives for many of the recipes in the book, Simply Japanese proves that a totally plant-based Japanese diet is well within our reach!