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Rice Craft: Yummy! Healthy! Fun to Make! Kindle Edition

by Sonoko Sakai (Author), petite maya.t (Illustrator), Matt Armendora (Photographer) Format: Kindle Edition

4.1 24 ratings

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“Step aside, cake pops—there’s a new spherical treat that’s ready to steal the after-school-snack spotlight, and this one’s healthy and easy to make.” —Today

There’s not a lunch box, birthday party, or afternoon snack that isn’t made more delicious and fun with onigiri! These bite-size balls of rice can be made with favorite and nutritious ingredients, and are easily shaped and decorated to make animals, flowers, and more. This book features more than thirty recipes for flavorful onigiri with a range of fillings as well as master recipes for cooking rice, plus extras to round out the meal: a miso soup to float the rice balls in, perfect soft eggs to wrap in rice, and pickled ginger to serve on the side. More than twenty color photographs inspire new creations and teach kids and adults alike to make these creative treats.

“Sakai creates delicious and creative bite size snacks from an array of nutritious ingredients and, did I mention, it’s all fun to make.” —Eat Drink Better

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About the Author

Sonoko Sakai is a Los Angeles–based cooking teacher and cofounder of Common Grains and the Southern California Heritage Grain Project.

Matt Armendariz is a food photographer based in Los Angeles.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01ESHXZWA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books LLC (July 19, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 19, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8788 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 151 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,564,655 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #188 in Cooking with Kids (Kindle Store)
- #263 in Cooking for Kids (Kindle Store)
- #349 in Japanese Cooking

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Matt Armendariz is a photographer, creative director, stylist and author based in Los Angeles, California. When he's not behind the camera, you can find him in his garden, having a cocktail with friends, and teaching Zumba classes!
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D Plaskow

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2016

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Great gift for my relatives @ Christmas. Love the colorful photos which add to the book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2021

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It’s a cute book. About half the book is recipes which I was a little disappointed about. But the weirdest thing was the smell! It smells like Vicks (that goo your parents would use when you were a kid and had congestion) or some kind of medical smell. It’s very odd....

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016

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Love Sunoco's stories and all the valuable educated guidance about rice! Excellent!!

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Chinra

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016

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Very fun book. Am anxious to try some of the recipes!

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017

great

This charming little book holds the key to many, many hours of fun creating great sticky rice snacks and appetizers

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016

There is a surprising amount of useful and helpful information in this little book. "Rice Craft" is all about Onigiri, which is sticky rice formed into shapes in the palm of your hand. Onigiri is snack food, but also a prime candidate for appetizers. Onigiri is a lot of fun, and it is easy to get creative with the shapes and tidbits that are tucked inside and placed outside. And Sonoko Sakai has a way of writing that sets a lighthearted tone for creating these rice treats.

Before you are even half way through this small gem of a cook book, you will be adding a sticky rice to your grocery list. Your biggest dilema will be choosing which rice to start with! Sakai lends a helping hand by thoroughly explaining the different rices that can be used for crafting Onigiri, plus the small additions that can be included via beans and grains.

She provides many recipes and even more helpful hints and suggestions. There are plenty of pictures to help explain the process.

It is a lot of fun gathering ingredients, planning shapes and forming whimsical characters. Great activity for children on a rainy afternoon; fun for a group activity, too. I'd rather have the kids building Onigiri than pinning the tale on the donkey at a birthday party.

*Prior to publication, I received a copy of this book from the publisher.

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Jamie Smith

and they put the fun in fundamentals with an extensive “master recipes” section which ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016

Don’t Play with your food! And the cute cookbook, Rice Craft, will help you do just that! I remember watching Pokemon cartoons when I was younger, and I wondered what the characters were eating (“jelly doughnut” was the most frequent English interpretation). I’ve since learned it was rice balls, onigiri, inari, and other forms of sushi. This darling book takes a creative look at these traditional Japanese snack, adding cute and inventive illustrations and layout to their cute and inventive recipes! There is lots of text and photos to help explain how to make them, and they put the fun in fundamentals with an extensive “master recipes” section which is worth the price of the book alone. My favorite is the Smoked Trout Onigiri with Lemon, which would work well with leftover smoked salmon, too. My kids, fans of all things Japanese, are making these straightforward recipes on their own, folding in different ingredient combinations into leftover sushi rice. We’ve even started making our own inari by frying slices from bricks of tofu and then cutting them in half again to create pockets, then soaking in sweetened soy sauce. It’s all been delightful fun for our family, and delicious, too!

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Brooke

Simple and fun recipes for the whole family

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019

Excellent cookbook for anyone interested in engaging Japanese recipes. Truly a wonderful and sweet addition to my collection. I’ve given this cookbook as a gift too and it was warmly received

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