The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by… The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.
- Last updated: October 4, 2024
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the cosiest, most mouth-wateringly good book I've read so far this year.
Chicago Review of Books’ review of Hisashi Kashiwai's novel "The Kamogawa Food Detectives," translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood.
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A nourishing collection of bite-sized stories with a hearty dash of savory flavor.
In The Kamogawa Food Detectives, by Hisashi Kashiwai, clients seek out the Kamogawa Diner because their elusive memories can't be accessed by something as simple as a bottle of rail liquor.