The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Mark Kurlansky) Liguria Hachisu demystifies the rural Japanese

Hachisu demystifies the rural Japanese kitchen

Through a synthesis of modern Greek food

In this lovingly crafted volume of food and memories

For more than ten thousand years

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes (Mark Kurlansky) Liguria Hachisu demystifies the rural JapaneseAs Julia Child once said, It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. Historically, she's been right and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sauts, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily indispensable, the onion is Kurlansky's newest global food