Mother Tongue in Cuisine Magazine
In her feature "Japan to Aotearoa," Anna King Shahab share a thorough list of the best Japanese food businesses. She writes,
"Not your typical cookbook, Auckland-based culture writer and journalist Akiko Kurematsu’s Mother Tongue is a quiet triumph: a delightful, touching insight into washoku (traditional Japanese cooking). Inspiration came during the pandemic, says Akiko, when she was cooking from her mother Kozue’s own cookbook featuring recipes from her grandmother, Fusae. Available at akikokurematsu.com."