{"id":1968,"date":"2016-04-19T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:00:26","slug":"sake-the-history-stories-and-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing22.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/sake-the-history-stories-and-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sake: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan\u2019s Artisanal Breweries &#8211; book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text-element body\"> I was told to expect a book. I was told to expect a big book. I was told to expect a coffee-table book. What I got was a book the size of a coffee table but one which will hold my attention long after the furniture would have lost its purely functional appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-4-3 image-review alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/img\/sake-book.jpg\" alt=\"sake\" width=\"259\" height=\"279\" \/> Sake: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan&#8217;s Artisanal Breweries (yes, the title fits the proportions of the book) is organic in its style and appropriate for the subject. The cover is fabric in a cool winter-sky blue with simple black text. Unfussy, crisp and displaying Japanese taste for minimalism.\u00a0 One naturally opens the volume with respect.<\/p>\n<p>This is a heavy tome but not heavy reading. It\u2019s a sake story book that will be the volume of choice for any lover of sake or things Japanese with which to snuggle. It\u2019s a picture book over which to pore. It showcases images of craft and continuity to beautiful effect. Sake: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan&#8217;s Artisanal Breweries is encyclopaedia of some of the most significant breweries (including 10 sh\u014dch\u016b distilleries and 5 Okinawan awamori distilleries), looking at sake and those Japanese spirits. It features 60 or so breweries, with each chapter focusing on the families who have, often for many generations, dedicated their lives to the production of Japan\u2019s iconic beverage. The book displays the diversity of brewing methods that produce such changes in flavour around Japan.<\/p>\n<h4>Rugged faces and frosted fields<\/h4>\n<p>The striking photography is by one of the world&#8217;s most renowned travel photographers, Jason Lang. He transmits to us the spirit both of sake and of those who labour to make it. He shows the reality of the process, its beauty and charm. Steam, warm rice, brewers and landscape populate these pages. He captures the environment with shots of rugged faces and frosted fields. Vignettes of traditional brewery slippers, high technology and natural wood. Anyone who has visited a brewery will be certain that they can actually smell fermenting mash between these pages.<\/p>\n<p>Sake: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan&#8217;s Artisanal Breweries will appeal to a wide audience. For the untutored, it will open a door to sake and introduce the characters who make that distinctive drink possible. For lovers of sake who want to learn more, there is a raft of information to study and muse upon. It\u2019s a book about sake but equally about people and the relationship between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Sake: The History, Stories and Craft of Japan&#8217;s Artisanal Breweries<br \/>\nAuthors: Hayato Hishinuma, Elliot Faber<br \/>\nPublished by: Gatehouse Publishing<br \/>\nPrice: \u00a375.00<br \/>\nISBN-10: 9810795289<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-9810795283<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>History book review by Chrissie Walker \u00a9 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/tag\/japan\/\">Read other articles about Japanese food, art and culture here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was told to expect a book. I was told to expect a big book. I was told to expect a coffee-table book. 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