Takako Yokoyama lives in Japan's mountainous Nagano prefecture. Specializing in her traditional regional cuisine as well as creating original recipes inspired by this tradition, she conducts regular classes and seminars about the tastes and techniques of Nagano cooking, and is a regular on Japanese TV cooking shows. She's been pickling ever since getting married many years ago, and in this book passes on her wealth of knowledge about making delicious pickles. She is the author of many books in her native Japan with a focus on eating seasonal food, pickling, and preserving.