Questions about the Japanese Pantry poster

What’s on the Japanese Pantry poster?

12 entries in 3 groups. A handful of ingredients covers a great deal. The base: Kombu — dried kelp, Katsuobushi — bonito flakes, Together they make dashi; Seasonings: Soy sauce (shoyu), Mirin — sweet rice wine, Sake, Rice vinegar, Miso — wh…; Staples: Short-grain rice, Noodles: udon, soba, ramen, Nori, Panko. Never boil kombu or miso. Kombu turns bitter; miso loses its aroma and its living cultures.

Who is the Japanese Pantry poster for?

Japanese Pantry belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning cuisines can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Japanese Pantry poster?

Dashi is the foundation. Almost everything else is built on it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Japanese Pantry belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Japanese Pantry?

Breads, Chinese Pantry and French Foundations sit alongside Japanese Pantry in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BreadsChinese PantryFrench Foundations

Is the Japanese Pantry poster free to download and print?

Yes. Japanese Pantry downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Japanese Pantry poster print at?

Japanese Pantry is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Japanese Pantry loses nothing.Printing guide