The Kamogawa Food Detectives was written by Hisashi Kashawai and translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood. The story takes place mainly in Kyoto but there is some traveling around Japan searching for answers. Customers enter this restaurant for meals or to find the recipe for the one dish they are craving. Each customer comes in, eats a meal, and then gets interviewed about the dish they want to eat again. The middle aged daughter does the interviewing and her father does the detective work and the cooking. After the interview the customer comes back two weeks later to taste the dish, get the recipe, and sometimes getting the ingredients of the dish to make for someone else in their life. This is a best selling book in Japan. The food sounds really good except for the meat and fish and eels that I don't eat. I enjoyed reading about a foreign land with foreign food.
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