Mother Tongue, Japanese Family and Food, is written by Akiko Kurematsu. Originally published in 2022, the first edition of Mother Tongue is now SOLD OUT.

Mother Tongue features 50 classic recipes passed down through the women in her lineage. As Akiko cooked her way through her mother Kozue’s cookbook of her grandmother Fusae’s recipes, she adapted the recipes to the produce and ingredients that she could find outside of Japan. Mother Tongue simplifies the recipes for how we eat today - more local, sustainable, aware.

The book contains childhood memories of meals with family, along with tips on how to make Japanese food at home - how to cook perfectly fluffy rice in a pot, dashi from scratch, to easy miso-soups and salads, and stand-alone dishes like okonomiyaki and soba.