Cool Tools
Kate Klippensteen, author
Yasuo Konishi, photographer
Kodansha America
575 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022
4770030169 $28.00 1-917-322-6219 www.kodanshaamerica.com
Superbly enhanced with full color photographs from Yasuo Konishi, Cool Tools: Cooking Utensils From The Japanese Kitchen by Kate Klippensteen is an impressively informative introductory exploration of the kitchen cookware and tools employed in the culinary aspects of Japanese culture. Presenting readers with a stunning collection of photographs and knowledgeable explanations for Japanese utensils ranging from the oni oroshi or "devil grater" (which is a useful grating tool for the daikon radish), the saibashi or cooking chopsticks, and the yanagi-ba (which is a long sashimi...
