Miso More Than Food: Life

Miso More Than Food: Life by Dionne, Suzanne. Spiral-bound edition. ISBN: 9780968978115.

Food technologist, winner of the Feminine Entrepreneurship Award at the "Concours Québecois en entrepreneurship" in 2001 and mastering the art of making miso, Suzanne Dionne publishes here a wonderful and interesting book: a pleasant, instructive and well-thought tool to learn about this exceptional food, how to integrate it in one’s daily life and get the best out of it. The some 40 world cooking recipes are simple and delicious. Moreover, the explanations are rigorous, the graphic work in color is of great quality – very attractive artwork, in fact – and the plastikoil binding truly practical. And it is easy to keep this book clean, the laminated cover and glossy paper making it endurable. The recipes are preceded by an information rich section on miso itself: what it is, its origin, how it is made, its exceptional nutritive qualities, the importance of enzymes in one’s diet, the interest of probiotics and the wide range of its functional properties. According to Dr. Shinichiro Akizuki, hospital director in Nagazaki, Japan, miso could become the most important part of a person’s diet. "I have found that, with very few exceptions, families which make a practice of serving miso soup daily are almost never sick…By enjoying miso soup each day, your constitution will gradually improve and you will develop resistance to disease. I believe that miso belongs to the highest class of medicines, those which help prevent disease and strengthen the body through continued usage."