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Chiyoko Tsukamoto

Japanese home cooking from your own supermarket.

162 recipes and 100 kitchen tricks from a 74-year-old Japanese mother. Measured in your cups. Cooked on your stove. No oven.

The Supermarket Notebook, by Chiyoko Tsukamoto: the book cover

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Is this your kitchen?

You like Japanese food. The recipes were not written for you.

They ask for a Japanese grocery, a kitchen scale and a family of four. This book asks for none of them.

Your store, not a specialty store

Everything comes from an ordinary American supermarket. Where a Japanese ingredient is hard to find, the swap is printed in the recipe.

Cups and spoons, not grams

Every amount is in US cups, tablespoons, ounces and Fahrenheit. No scale and no converting.

Cooking for one or two

Most recipes serve one or two, with a line for four. There is a whole chapter of suppers in one pan for one person.

Too tired to cook

Twelve suppers take fifteen minutes or less. The first one is rice with hot tea poured over it.

A letter from Chiyoko

Konnichiwa. I am Chiyoko. I am 74 years old, and I am a cook. I grew up on a rice farm in Niigata, and for 26 years I cooked lunch at a school, about 300 lunches a day.

My son lives in America. On every visit I walk his supermarket with a notebook, every aisle, top shelf to bottom. I write down what it sells. Then I go home and cook Japanese food from that list.

This book is those notebooks. Every recipe tells you how much, how long, what to listen for, and why. When you know the reason, you can cook without the book.

My mother never wrote anything down. I am writing it down.

Chiyoko TsukamotoMurakami, Niigata

What is inside

Seventeen chapters, from a pot of rice to something sweet.

And at the back of the book

Look inside

Large type. One recipe on two facing pages.

Each recipe gives the exact amounts, numbered steps, the reason it works, the swaps, and how long it keeps.

A recipe page from the book: Teriyaki Salmon
A recipe: what you need, then how you make it
A page of kitchen tricks about rice
The tricks: one habit, and the reason for it
A weekly plan page with a shopping list and five suppers
A week of suppers with its shopping list

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  • 100 kitchen tricks, each with its reason
  • Four weekly supper plans with shopping lists
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Questions

Before you buy

Is this a printed book?

No. It is a PDF that you download. You can read it on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and you can print any page you want to cook from.

How do I get it?

After you pay, the download link appears on the screen and is sent to your email. It takes about a minute.

Do I need a Japanese grocery store?

No. Every recipe is cooked from an ordinary American supermarket. A few Japanese ingredients are marked “you may find it”, and each one has a swap printed in the recipe.

Do I need special equipment?

No. A heavy pot with a lid, a skillet, a small saucepan and a microwave. There is no oven, broiler or deep fryer anywhere in the book. A rice cooker is welcome, and not needed.

I cook for one. Is it for me?

Yes. Most recipes serve one or two. One chapter is suppers in one pan for one person, and another shows how to use the freezer so that nothing is wasted.

Is it for a special diet?

Chiyoko is a cook, not a doctor, and the book makes no health claims. Every recipe lists exactly what goes in, so you can judge it for yourself. Every egg, and all meat and fish, is cooked through.

What if I do not like it?

Try the book for 7 days. If it is not for you, reply to your receipt email and your money comes back.

“Start with a pot of rice. Then one soup. Then one dish.”

A Japanese supper on your table this week.

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