Harumi Kurihara

Harumi Kurihara (Japanese栗原 はるみ, Kurihara Harumi, born March 5, 1947 in Shimoda ) is a prominent housewife and a TV star in Japan.

It is also often called the " Japanese Martha Stewart" and for over 20 years, enjoys fame in Japan. It is the talk show host of numerous television shows, author of Suteki Recipe ( " wonderful recipes "), a quarterly -appearing cooking and recipe magazine, which sold 5 million copies, and as of more than 20 cookbooks and lifestyle magazines. One cookware series is named after her as well. She is President ( shachō ) of the household goods company KK Yutori no KUKAN (株式会社 ゆとりの空間, GV " A place to relax ").

She was born in the coastal town of Shimoda and never received professional training as a chef. Your kitchen combines traditional with modern Western influences. She is married to the former newscaster Reiji Kurihara, who confirmed originally in it to start a TV career. He is now Chairman ( KAICHÔ ) of Yutori no Kukan.

Harumis first cookbook was Gochisōsama ga, Kikitakute. (ごちそうさま が,きき たく て. ), Which means something like " I want to hear. It was delicious " The first cookbook written by her, which was translated into English, was Harumi 's Japanese Cooking (Eng. " Harumi 's Japanese Kitchen ") which in 2004 as the best cookbook of the year and the best Asian cookbook in the world was honored at the tenth Gourmand World cookbook Awards. Her book was chosen from a pool of 5000 cookbooks from 67 countries. It was published in 2006 in German as Harumis Japanese cuisine (ISBN 978-3-8310-0880-3 ), followed in 2007 by Simply cook Japanese (ISBN 978-3-8310-1101-8 ).