CIBI (‘a little one’) celebrates home-style Japanese cooking inspired by the eponymous Melbourne and Tokyo café and design spaces created by Meg and Zenta Tanaka.
CIBI contains more than 80 seasonal recipes across vegetables, seafood, meat, grains, noodles, and sweets. It also features elements of Japanese cooking and food culture, accompanied by beautiful photography and illustrations. The recipes, perfect for sharing with friends and family, strongly reflect Meg and Zenta’s ethos—a fresh, simple approach to cooking with quality produce to create healthy and balanced meals that artfully fuse Japanese and western inspiration.
CIBI incorporates elements of Japanese design culture and glimpses of their young family’s worlds in Melbourne, Tokyo, and Meg’s birthplace, Okayama, alongside snapshots (in words and pictures) of the CIBI philosophy: an enjoyment of food, community and sharing.