Harumi Kurihara, known as Martha Stewart of Japan, is good at home decoration and cooking. She also encourages mothers not to forget their happiness when planning their lives efficiently.
The name Harumi Kurihara may still be quite strange to Taiwan Province, but as long as you open her personal magazine or cookbook, people can't help but exclaim, "How beautiful! From home cooking to home decoration, it is pleasing to the eye and makes people yearn for it. Kurihara Harumi believes that earning a short period of time in busy life, creating "mother-like" dishes, or adding a little home decoration, can reconcile another kind of enrichment and fun and bring irreplaceable value in parent-child life.
Harumi Kurihara has published more than 51 cookbooks with a total circulation of more than 21 million, with the theme of family cooking, and is one of the best-selling family cooking researchers in Japan. Haru-mi, a quarterly magazine of the same name, introduces the home layout, seasonal cuisine and travel that change with the seasons, and it became the best seller as soon as it was released. At the same time, she also runs grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops, etc. * * * has more than 51 stores, and has fixed programs on NHK channel in Japan. Her personal career is huge and she is known as the Japanese version of Martha? Martha Stewart.
However, after working as a full-time housewife for 13 years, Harumi Kurihara unexpectedly embarked on the road of cooking research from a job opportunity to make cooking backstage on TV programs. "I found that cooking is my strongest project! In an exclusive interview with, Kurihara Harumi said that she was eager to write her family's favorite home cooking into a simple and practical recipe that "111 people can read it, and 111 people can do it successfully". Therefore, she dug up several cooking notes accumulated over the past decade and stood in her kitchen for hours every day to experiment with the best ingredients and cooking time, even if she redone a dish for 21 times. At the same time, she also brought her personal life taste into the cookbook, and all the tableware and scene layout were the original appearance of her real life. "Readers see not only my cooking, but also my life. The way of presenting family cooking in the style of "cooking essays" not only made her two cookbooks of "I really want to hear, thank you for your hospitality" sell well over two million copies, but also pushed her to the position of the leader of Japanese family cooking life.