Eric Gower's Books
May.01.2007
A breakaway cook is, above all, someone who loves great home cooking without excessive fuss – it’s all about keeping things very simple and accessible. Simplicity is what distinguishes breakaway cooking from fusion food, which often muddies the waters with needless and excessive complexity. Breakaway cooking reaches all over the globe for inspiration and ingredients to produce...
Sep.01.2003
The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen, released in October 2003 by Kodansha International, is my modernist/contemporary interpretation of Japanese food. The dishes in the book are the result of a passion for good home-cooked food and experimentation that went on for about 15 years in several almost comically under-...
About Eric
A week after graduating from Berkeley in 1987 with my highly useful and practical degree in modern Japanese literature, it seemed like hitchhiking around Japan was as good an idea as any. I wound up having some wonderful adventures and stayed for 15 years,...
Causes Eric Gower Supports
Amnesty International
Doctors Without Borders