Making Miso

Erika Hirose is a miso brewer based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Using traditional technique from her native Japan, she makes miso from local Dutch ingredients, creating an amazingly delicious product that is prized by everyone from home cooks to Michelin-starred chefs.

Making Miso is an unusual book. Comprised of diary entries and photographs, it covers a period in Erika’s life when she travelled the world, experienced much joy and sorrow, and gradually came to the decision that she wanted to make miso for a living. It’s not a how-to guide to making miso, but an intimate and personal story about embracing life, and engaging with the past and present to create something new.

The book is Risograph-printed and hand-bound in a small run in partnership with PrintRoom, Rotterdam.

It includes 10 colour photographs and five recipes giving traditional dishes from around the world a miso twist.