BEE SIG Favourite Recipes

Want to recommend a good vegetarian recipe or restaurant in Japan? We're compiling an ongoing list of your favourite road-tested recipes and eateries. Please contact the Website Coordinator if you want to add one of your favourites to the list.

The Recipes

• magic with black beans
• red lentil soup
• pink potato salad
• spinach salad with parmesan
• agedashi tofu

Nutrition

Nutritionists recommend that about half the vegetables we eat each day should be raw. Uncooked vegetables are higher in fibre and nutrients than their cooked counterparts.

One of the best introductions to Japanese food is the "Nutrition" chapter in the Japan Health Handbook, by Meredith Enman Maruyama, Louise Pican Shimizu and Nancy Smith Tsurumaki (Kodansha International Ltd, NY, 1998). It provides a good analysis of many Japanese foods and retailers of health foods. It also is an excellent source of information on other health concerns as well, from alternative healing to insurance matters.