A long-time vegetarian, HEMA PAREKH has been teaching vegetarian cooking in Tokyo for almost twenty years. She has written two popular books on vegetarian cooking in Japanese A Touch of Spice and Indian Vegetarian Cooking and is working on a third. Parekh has lived in Japan for 27 years.
""If your concept of international vegetarian cooking is limited to eggplant parm from Italy and bean burritos from Mexico, take a world tour with Hema Parekh, author of the new book, The Asian Vegan Kitchen…Parekh's philosophy is all about cooking as a way to share love and demonstrate hospitality."" —New York Daily News ""…wide variety of innovative dishes…Beautiful color photos."" —Vegetarian Journal