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Ultimate Bento: Healthy, Delicious and Affordable: 85 Mix-and-Match Bento Box Recipes
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Product Description **2020 Gourmand Food Culture Award Winner** With these fun, easy and delicious recipes, anyone can venture into the world of bento boxes—no special tools or containers necessary! Hosts of popular NHK World cooking show Bento Expo, Marc Matsumoto and Maki Ogawa share their bento-making expertise on the pages of this stunningly photographed cookbook. As a Japanese-American, Marc is ideally placed to help Western readers add Japanese touches to their lunches with easy-to-find ingredients. As a Japanese mom of teenage boys, Maki is an expert at creating simple yet delicious bento box combinations that can be put together easily every morning. Together they have created an accessible, authentic bento cookbook that everyone will enjoy. Ultimate Bento is packed with practical techniques, step-by-step instructions, and useful tips for 85 recipes that can be mixed-and-matched for 25 nutritionally balanced bento box lunches. Each bento in this book costs under $3 per serving, so you and your family can save money while also eating healthier. Recipes include: Summer Rolls Japanese-style Coleslaw Wasabi Chicken Snap Pea Stir-Fry Yakitori Chicken Skewers Mini Stuffed Peppers Ginger Pork Review "The hosts of Bento Expo, Marc Matsumoto and Maki Ogawa, make bento meals accessible to North American cooks with expert Japanese touches in their new book Ultimate Bento." —The Vancouver Sun "It brings practical techniques, step-by-step instructions, and useful tips for 85 recipes that can be mixed-and-matched for 25 nutritionally balanced bento box lunches." —Parenting Healthy blog "…features a fun and exciting combination of bento boxes along with helpful tips and tricks for both beginners and more experienced bento makers." —Tara's Multicultural Table blog " Ultimate Bento is a brilliant guide to how to make delicious and fun bentos with ingredients that are easy to find, and you don't need any special tools or equipment either." —A Mum Reviews blog About the Author Marc Matsumoto is the host of the popular NHK World television series Bento Expo, which seeks to teach the world about the craft of bento making (currently in its fourth series and scheduled for a fifth). He is also a professional chef, restaurant consultant and food blogger. Born in Japan, raised in Australia and the U.S. and now back in Japan, Marc is uniquely suited to bridging culinary cultures and bringing these recipes to audiences around the world. You can keep up with him on social media @norecipes, and on his website norecipes.com Maki Ogawa is the co-host of Bento Expo and the author of Yum-Yum Bento Box and Yum-Yum Bento Box All Year Round (Quirk Books). A Japanese working mom of two sons, Maki has been making bentos for her family every day for the last fifteen years. She shares her wealth of bento-making expertise not just on TV and through her cookbooks, but also on her Instagram @cuteobento
