

How to Make Instant Ramen Compliments of Japanese Animation Director Hayao MiyazakiĬolin Marshall writes on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer , and the video series The City in Cinema. Science & Cooking: Harvard Profs Meet World-Class Chefs in Unique Online Course MIT Teaches You How to Speak Italian & Cook Italian Food All at Once (Free Online Course) Michael Pollan Explains How Cooking Can Change Your Life Recommends Cooking Books, Videos & Recipes As for all those languages, now…Ĭookpad, the Largest Recipe Site in Japan, Launches New Site in Englishĥ3 New York Times Videos Teach Essential Cooking Techniques: From Poaching Eggs to Shucking Oysters And so we really have no excuses left not to learn how to make Japanese food - or any other kind. Fortunately, the Times also has our back on that: as we posted last year, you can get a handle on all of that with their 53 instructional videos on essential cooking techniques. But still, even though sites like these guarantee that none of us will ever go hungry for lack of a recipe, we can only do as well by any of them as our actual, physical cooking skills allow. Have a look around, and you’ll see that the site also offers a number of useful functions for those who make a free account there, such as the ability to save the recipes you want to make later and a recommendation engine to give you suggestions as to what to make next. Above, we have a video that accompanies the Yakisoba With Pork and Cabbage recipe. Call up Japanese food, and you get a variety of appealing dishes and sauces from the simple and easy ( chicken teriyaki, yakisoba, eggplant with miso) to the more elaborate ( squid salad with cucumbers, almonds, and pickled plum dressing and Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s fried sushi cakes) to the new-wave ( miso butterscotch, Nakagawa’s California sushi, and Japanese burgers with wasabi ketchup).

Now we have another rich recipe resource in the form of The New York Times Cooking database, an archive of 17,000 recipes, also accessible through its very own free iPhone app. I had a mind to go straight to Cookpad, Japan’s biggest general recipe site that we featured back in 2013, when it had just launched an English-language version.
